Only Talking Mountain would produce a thoughtful, nearly 30-minute-long video to accompany an album premiere stream.
Omaha's most colorful, most complete art assemblage and most laser-y electronic project without the bass drops or turntables shows the world its new album through the video below. It's a gradually changing repetitive clip that begs the question, "What is that creature in the boat?"
album art for Mysterious Knowledge/Unknown Colors
This week, Talking Mountain celebrates the release of Mysterious Knowledge/Unknown Colors. The album will be available digitally on Tuesday, March 26, and will also be sold via Slumber Party Records. The album will also be released at two shows. The first concert is Wednesday night at Slowdown with Ever Ending Kicks, Hers and Coyote Bones. The second is a double album release show alongside Touch People's Brain Massage taking place at The Bourbon on Friday, March 29 with openers Green Trees and Omni Arms.
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Click play to listen to Mysterious Knowledge/Unknown Colors in its entirety here:
Info about the physical release:
Mysterious Knowledge/Unknown Colors is the new album from Talking Mountain. Embracing appropriate technology, the album comes on a CD-R printed in appropriate colors to look like the Moon. It is packaged like a 7-inch vinyl record with beautiful full color artwork. Also included are a fold-out pamphlet with information about the album as well as the words that accompany the music, a series of small, individual photographs taken over the last year, and a one-of-a-kind mystical wooden object, The Ominoptra.
The Ominoptra is a wooden pendant. It is a cross section of a fallen limb from the dying tree that looms over my house, and they are limited to 100 pieces. Each one was sawn from the branch, hand wood-burned, and numbered on the back by me. It is enclosed in a small velvet pouch and includes a small, instructional card as well as colored hemp string so that it may be worn or tied to something.
A promotional blurb:
Talking Mountain was just me once, and I made the album Old Gold/Ancient Jamz by myself, with a few friends here and there, over a period of four years. Talking Mountain became a band shortly after that, and we made the album Nature of Magic/Magic of Nature together, and played shows throughout the Midwest for a few years.
As these sorts of things often do, this band version of Talking Mountain lost its way and disbanded. It broke up and then I got divorced. I wasn't going to make any more music, but after playing a quiet, intimate acoustic show with no microphones or amplification to a room full of polite, seated guests in a venue that generally would not host something like that, I was inspired enough to make another album.
This album is a collection of songs about losing things, things like friends, wives, lives, hope…
These songs are also about gaining things, things like new love, clarity, perspective, hope…
I haven't changed, I'm still me. The weight of existence is heavy. It's difficult to talk and sing about, and it's hard to draw. These songs are fuzzy, but they are also clear. They are transparent, and I hope you enjoy them.
-Jason/TM
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