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Ancestral Motion

by Swim Ignorant Fire

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Music purely from the heart. Favorite track: Dark Sun.
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Unknown Drones 04:52
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Red Sand 04:19
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Grains from Sky 03:12
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Vistas 02:16
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The Toad of Dawn 04:26
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Dark Sun 02:42
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Palms 03:25
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Portrait of Lamia 02:17
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Lost Without Body 02:27
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Purgatory 01:42
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about

Loops of African Juju Witchcraft Dance, Chants from India, and percussive record grooves swirl together once again on a SP202 to form the new album Ancestral Motion.

Where Bufo Alvarius was an esoteric diary of one man’s adventure through uncharted territory, Ancestral Motion metamorphoses further into a mystical conflict of light and dark. With a new group of travelers, polyrhythmia and lo-fi tropical magic guide the listener from warm sanctuaries of illumination to the adversarial pitch-darkness.

With contributions from Yea Big, Ian Sheridan, and Ohtis’s Adam Pressley & Nate Hahn, Ancestral Motion gives life to a rare fusion of tropical world music and improv jazz.

"Ancient ritual soundtracks collide with looped and loopy future tribal rhythms as free jazz psychonauts serve healthy measures of entheogenic punch in Swim Ignorant Fire's fun, freaky, trippy, tropical new LP for Shimmering Moods." - The Slow Music Movement

"Swim Ignorant Fire’s Grains from Sky is a proud monument to creative excess. But, the author is entirely confident in the work. And, well, it swings. There are moments where the robotic Hawaiian jazz almost makes perfect sense. It’s almost like your Worldbeat playlist opted to mash up all of its contents. One has to admire that. The Netflix special promises to be great. " - Alt77.com

"If detail and the search for textures are your thing, you have come to the right proposal. Swim Ignorant Fire combines performed music, with sounds that refer to jazz at times with samples and loops generating very flashy and enjoyable atmospheres." - Rocktails.tv

"Creative and adventurous and cool" - Active Light Records
"Interesting textures and instrumentation" - No Transmission
"Genre blending production, unique synth" - haha nice
"Amazing magic, hypnotic soundscape" - Underrated
"Expansive and enveloping atmosphere" - Ovoid
"Soft, breezy sound and flowing" - At Cost Magazine
"Interesting production and immersive mix" - Infralyd

credits

released August 19, 2022

Produced and Mixed by Stephen Holliger
Additionally Engineered and Mastered by Ian Sheridan

Stephen Holliger - SP202, Bass, Aux Perc
Adam Pressley - Guitar
Nate Hahn - Steel
Ian Sheridan - Drums/Perc
Yea Big - Bass Clarinet

CD Art/Design by Stephen Holliger
Tape Art/Design by Skyler J Edwards

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