Description
And Their Power Is Alive is a collaborative record between the Vashon Island based artist Faith Coloccia and Ashville based guitarist Tashi Dorji out September on Whited Sepulchre Records. Coloccia and Dorji's longstanding collaborative relationship and friendship bolsters this massive conceptual weight - the music is as stirring as it is gorgeous, as exploratory as it is surefooted. And Their Power Was Alive manifests and rises up as a profound iteration of the interrelatedness of the personal and the political, poetically. Coloccia's plaintive voice, as always, is clear and stirring, intimate, close, and notably here recorded without reverb. She is steady and her lyrics echo dream phrases which visited her during major life shifts: a drive through the arid desert, explaining the concept of private property to the next generation, intergenerational knowledge and caregiving. All of this establishes a melancholia of reflections on land, history, scale. The first words sung on this record are: ""Cosmic Horror! I am nothing, I am no-one"" and even here, Coloccia is steady. Dorji's glacial layers of distorted howling guitar create a rise and crest and fall - symphonies of noise, roaring but distant like fire in the hills, interwoven with piano, organ, and tubular bells.
Tracklist:
- Excessive Yield
- Short Lived Echo
- Invisible Lines Between Imaginary Lands
- Dawns Upon the Sea
- Ashen Cinder
- Fires Three
- Sicilia's Last Word
UPC: 781661739262
Label: Whited Sepulchre Rec
Release Date: 9.25.26
Format: Vinyl
