Seer's Glimpsing Into Oblivion debut LP now on sale at Yuggoth Records!
Seer is a brand new project and collaboration that film and concert hall composer, Peter Scartabello and I have just unleashed into the world. Our debut album, “Glimpsing Into Oblivion” has just been released by Scartabello’s fantastic Yuggoth Records and is limited to 100 vinyl copies while also being available digitally. We are incredibly proud of this album and are so psyched for people to experience it!
The music on this album was brilliantly produced by Peter Scartabello and Barry Knob. I contributed vocals, synthesizers, piano, harmonium and drones. Scartabello provided absolutely beautiful and mind-blowing arrangements on all of these songs utilizing synthesizers, percussion, acoustic and electric guitar and kalimba. Knob also added coruscating mellotron on the final title track.
The astonishingly poetic and evocative art by Adam Burke captures the atmosphere of the record magnificently.
The vinyl design and layout was strikingly put together by Nick Lane.
A link to the Yuggoth Records bandcamp page is below along with more information about the album from the label.
Seer's album "Glimpsing Into Oblivion" marks the first collaboration between songwriter and soundtrack composer Chris Bozzone and film and concert hall composer Peter Scartabello.
"Glimpsing Into Oblivion" is a set of immensely haunting vocal-based songs that are drenched in lush atmospherics and extraordinary melodic arrangements. Trance-inducing synthesizer based compositions oscillate between unearthly drones, sustained bass tones, deep pulsations to eerily beautiful, cinematic, and ethereal instrumentation that includes a diverse array of cosmic tones from kalimba, harmonium, various percussive elements with both hand percussion and drum kit, acoustic and electric guitar and piano.
Lyrical imagery running through this album is nightmarish, erotic and surrealistic while also hypnotically alluring in its building potency as the record progresses. The strange and mysterious beauty of Chris Bozzone's vocals are elevated to an incredible degree by Peter Scartabello's soaring and transporting arrangements on all of these tracks. In turn, "Glimpsing Into Oblivion" strives for a kind of dreamlike emotional transcendence that is utterly distinct in its cumulative sound, feel and impact.
The gripping tonal colors and lyrical themes found within "Glimpsing Into Oblivion" circle around a kind of film in song form. Evoking the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrzej Zulawski, Sergei Paradjanov, Frantisek Vlacil, Jess Franco, Philippe Garrel, Jean Rollin and Alain Robbe-Grillet, the album is a singular amalgamation of different musical languages with everything from esoteric and avant-garde classical/minimalist stylings to enthralling dark ambient and hypnagogic soundscapes.
Art by the incomparable Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration