Pale Song of Tilth and Foison

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1.	Wraiths of Clynmalira (Hissing Psalm) 00:29	buy track
2.	Tuning 01:02	buy track
3.	Exordium: Fortune’s Wheel/“Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age” (Holst) 09:51	buy track
4.	Putrid Magic (“Dream and Delusion”): For Stuart Saunders Smith 02:05	buy track
5.	Warmth 05:04	buy track
6.	Dream I: Bitter Worm of Man (The Beginning of a Whorl) 00:43	buy track
7.	Dream II: Rotten Sun 13:23	buy track
8.	Dream III: Salve, salus hominum — O radians Stella — Nostrum 01:28	buy track
9.	Hulking Grotesque 05:42	buy track
10.	The Blue of Noon 05:05	buy track
11.	(Worlds of Mirth) 03:41	buy track

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World of Mirth consists of compositions possessing equally hypnotic and hostile ambience. A sort of poltergeist music, wherein the past lashes out and holds us to the floor. Brilliant and haunting.
- B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space, Amygdalatropolis, and Pearl Death

Sometimes World of Mirth feels like plunging into an ice bath, sometimes it feels like arriving at the foothills of a dark and misty mountain. It's Saturnian to the core – like Goya's famous painting of Father Time devouring the heads off his children – and unlike anything I’ve heard before.
- Lex Brown, conceptual artist

Each song creaks open behind its mystery door to reveal a different twisted spectacle from its dark carnival. A Chaucerian dream vision. The putrid lingering of a synth’s decay. A courtly dance through bacchanalian violence. Behind you, the jester’s playful hand turns the knob on a trapdoor and a heartbreaking, dramatic, theatrical, orchestral rise brings you suddenly to tears.
- Kelly Karivalis, author of Adult Gummies

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released December 3, 2021

World of Mirth
“Pale Song of Tilth and Foison”

Dedicated to Gabe Donnay

Music composed, performed, and recorded by Sam Garrett with contributions by Shelly Purdy, Nick Podgurski, and Caley Monahon-Ward.

Mixed by Nick Skrobisz and Sam Garrett, Fall 2021
Mastered by Nick Skrobisz, Fall 2021

Shelly Purdy, vibraphone: 4, 6, 10, 11
Nick Podgurski, synthesizers: 7
Caley Monahon-Ward, guitars: 8

Track 3 includes an arrangement of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets: Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age”

Track 5 is indebted to the work of Akira Yamaoka

Art direction, lettering, and design: Sean Manchee

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