The Heavy Burden Of Existentialism
by Owen Payette McGarry
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Digital Album
Streaming + DownloadPurchasable with gift card
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Blood And Thunder
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Moonsmiler
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Goliath, Birdeater
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about
Three years in the making, the composition of Owen Payette McGarry’s The Heavy Burden of Existentialism has spanned three continents and five countries. In this piece, the four channels of the Nintendo gameboy dance and drone contemplatively to invoke bleak, nuanced landscapes evocative of the dynamism and malignant nature of South Pacific surrounding the composer on the cover. Within the somber waves of each piece are clandestine suggestions of classical beauty, presented fleetingly to beguile the supplicant listener. This ephemeral human quality ultimately culminates in the piece titled The Barrens with the addition of vocals performed Katie Greenwood Ross. However, even during these most unguarded and comparatively venerable moments, the humanity is buried, burdened and muddy, struggling to stay at the surface of the cold consuming torrent of two-bit force and as we listen, common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
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released May 22, 2015
Music by Owen Payette McGarry except where noted
Mastering by Luc Lacerte
Album cover by Owen Payette McGarry
Cover photography by Erik Schiller
Music by Owen Payette McGarry except where noted
Mastering by Luc Lacerte
Album cover by Owen Payette McGarry
Cover photography by Erik Schiller
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