Tee Pee Tuesday: Black Math Horseman
It’s a little bit manic at CR HQ today, and as such we thought a spot of poetic writing might soothe our troubled brows. That, and a bit of chilled-out doom rock. Click here for previous Tracks Of The Day.
The latter comes courtesy of today’s Tee Pee Tuesday artist, LA’s Black Math Horseman, in the shape of their song Origin Of Savagery, which features former Kyuss bassist Scott Reeder. The poetry comes courtesy of their official biog. Read on, and you’ll see what we mean…
A crack in the firmament, a rustling in the pines. The forest’s equilibrium is shattered beneath the hooves of antiquity. Proscribed by the egoists, all the old sacraments have been performed—a complete transference of potency. The air hisses with mercury and magnetism. Fire swallows the land. In stillness they wait as the sky bleeds white, players in a proto-mythic drama with outcome unknown. (Not the band, though—that would be cheesy.)
This information is as useful or useless as anyone chooses. All else—the sound, the colour, the shape of things, the light and shade of narrative and molecular dispensation—is left to the atmosphere. It’s here and then it’s gone. It’s always there. Or maybe it was never there, not ever. It’s an imagined memory, the ultimate false dawn. A psychic eclipse that blinds the mind’s eye. How’s that for high melodrama, for existential cryptography? Sometimes, vagueness and vagaries have to suffice.
For those who prefer terra firma, though? Call it ambient post-doom. Call it alchemic psych-rock, only without all those annoying freeform guitar freakouts. Call it “pure spirits by ritual dismemberment.” Either way, Black Math Horseman is Sera Timms (bass/vocals), Ian Barry (guitar) Bryan Tulao (guitar) and Sasha Popovic (drums). They are from Los Angeles. Their debut album, Wyllt, was recorded and produced by desert guru Scott Reeder (Kyuss, Unida). The rest is a discovery about to be made.
Discover it here. Download Origin Of Savagery.
Visit their MySpace Or stop by their home on Tee Pee.
