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Acclaimed composer (A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Hit Man) and musical maverick Graham Reynolds releases his debut solo album for Fire Records.

The quintessential modern composer The Independent.

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. Mt Monadnock in New Hampshire is namechecked, while the Enchanted Rock (a thunderous Einstrzende Neubauten-like reawakening of the senses played out on Grahams 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.

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 Ive been releasing music for my whole adult life, this is the first time Ive had real label support for something of my own, unattached to a film or other media. So, in a way, oddly, its my first real solo album Graham Reynolds.

Tracklist:

Side A
A1. Monadnock
A2. The Lost Weekend
A3. Great Western
A4. Long Island Sound
A5. Prophet Harmonic
A6. Enchanted Rock

Side B
B1. Caretaker Of Kings
B2. Mountain Part 1
B3. Mountain Part 2
B4. Linger In Silence feat. Marta Del Grandi
B5. The Lost Weekend (Revisited)
B6. Splendor Falls