Palimpseste, by Common Eider, King Eider

Palimpseste

by Common Eider, King Eider

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Der Eibenreiter This record fascinates me mainly for one reason: It is deeply in resonance with my own real-life experiences. I can still remember that feeling of sitting in an secret underground chamber, listening to that indescribable meditative sound, caused by the deep earth and flowing water. This album, at least to me, is the most precise attempt to describe the manyfold emotion one is facing while meditating in primal darkness. Favorite track: Reclamation of Water.

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1.	Tombs- Earth's Sacred Womb 12:27	buy track
2.	Reclamation of Water 15:37	buy track
3.	Offerings, A Wound 04:11	buy track
4.	Calling To The Feral Ones 04:39	buy track
5.	As The Spirits Watch Over Us, We Reciprocate 09:03	buy track

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Recorded in various undisclosed caves and secret locations within the French Pyrenean landscape, we are now witness to a very unique channelling of forces emanating from these two singular ritual acts. In textual studies, a “Palimpseste” is writing material, such as a parchment or tablet, used one or more times after earlier writings have been erased from it. It can also be regarded as something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface. The conductive element within these recordings is water, sound sources recorded from cave lakes, streams and rivers are featured through out these recordings, carefully merged with stark, cavernous drone soundscapes and disquieting chants, guiding us to unknown territories as we venture within these singular chambers and places. The whole transpires as an hymn to the power of water, to cleanse and purify, and even destroy all it touches.

Edition of 500 copies in A5 Matt Laminated Digisleeve. 5 Tracks. Running Time 46:51

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released March 18, 2020

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