Graham Reynolds, “The quintessential modern composer” (The Independent) unveils atmospheric, minimalist new single from his debut solo album ‘Mountain’: ‘The Lost Weekend (Revisited)’. Graham’s new album ‘Mountain’ is America writ large, a soundscape for a big country, a place you can wander adrift, much like the main character in the 1945 Billy Wilder film The Lost Weekend, starring Ray Milland. This theme is expanded with classical grandeur and much melancholy on the gorgeous ‘Lost Weekend (Revisited)’ that almost acts as a companion piece to some of Graham’s more familiar film work.
“Ominous sounds of the natural world, in both its beauty and despair” The New York Times
A socio-geographic trip along the Sierra in your mind, standout title track ‘Mountain (Part 1)’ is filled with romantic orchestral sweeps conjuring up an image of a vast landscape disrupted by a singular peak, while ‘…Part 2’ takes a more jagged path, traversing an angular ridge before steadying itself into a piece of Hermann-esque Hitchcock.
“This album is personal. It starts with Monadnock, the first mountain I ever climbed, up in New England. The first side ends with Enchanted Rock, the first mountain I climbed in my adopted state of Texas. And, though I’ve been releasing music for my whole adult life, this is the first time I’ve had real label support for something of my own, unattached to a film or other media. So, in a way, oddly, it’s my first real solo album” GRAHAM REYNOLDS
‘Mt Monadnock’ in New Hampshire is namechecked, while the ‘Enchanted Rock’ (a thunderous Einstürzende Neubauten-like reawakening of the senses played out on Graham’s signature booming orchestral drum) stands just outside of Austin, Texas, Reynolds’ home-base for over 30 years.
Composed and performed by Graham Reynolds, with contributions from his rotating cast of musical compadres, the album was produced and mixed by mysterious English duo Peter Talisman. There are surprises throughout the album as Austin neighbour Jad Fair (Half Japanese) pops up with backing vocals along with Italian chanteuse Marta del Grandi whose evocative words on ‘Linger In Silence’ spark a wonderful re-awakening of the exquisite seven-minute stand-out ‘Prophet Harmonic’.
…as William Blake once said:
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet”
Live Dates
07 Feb: Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL, US
08 Feb: Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL, US
25 May: Cafe OTO, London, UK
