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Harvestman


Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist and guitarist Steve Von Till, and the first album, Lashing the Rye, was created largely by Von Till over several years during lulls in his productive schedule of writing and performing with Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot and his own solo endeavors. While he played and recorded much of the album, select guest collaborators contribute vocals and cello (Surround Me) and bagpipes (Green Hills of Tyrol / The Battle’s O’er) amongst other flourishes to various tracks. Harvestman's second album, In a Dark Tongue, was released in Spring 2009. Musical missive number two (or three if you count the sidelong Fear Falls Burning remix from a few years back) from Harvestman, the cosmic folk space raga alter ego of Neurosis' Steve Von Till. The first Harvestman record, Lashing the Rye, released in 2005, was a dizzying confluence of delicate seventies British-style folk, shimmery spaced out drift, and glacial doomdrone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out otherworld. On In a Dark Tongue, the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Even at its spaciest, Harvestman seemed grounded and earthbound, certainly with an eye to the stars, but the sounds evoking frosty mountainsides, deep forests, blackened skies, as much as strange shapes in the heavens and mysterious galaxies, the soundtrack to a strange terrestrial world, li...

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