Lyra Pramuk is back with a new album. Hymnal, the follow-up to her 2020 debut, Fountain, arrives June 13 via 7K! and pop.soil. Listen to a single, “Rewild,” below.
Last month, Pramuk shared “Vega” with the launch of pop.soil, her own label and arts hub. That track does not appear on the album, which draws conceptual inspiration from poems contributed by the artist Nadia Marcus. Pramuk reformulated those poems and bound them to reworked music created with the Sonar Quartett string ensemble in a collaborative session.
In a statement, Pramuk spoke of the “common good” of music at a time when “the West dominates the Earth with protocols of extraction, surveillance, and exploitation.” She went on, “I do not adhere to this philosophy. This work represents an attempt to articulate my own belief system. Everything about our society is designed to distract us from our true power, innate beauty, and connection with all (real) life. It’s up to us to unlearn this.… We must cultivate interplanetary consciousness and tell the universe stories about who we are. Being trans has led me to question everything about society to keep the good bits, and imagine a better, more holistic reality.”
Revisit Eric Torres’ Rising profile “Lyra Pramuk’s Surreal Songs of the Self.”
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Hymnal:
01 Rewild02 Unchosen03 Render04 Incense05 Oracle06 Babel07 Meridian08 Gravity09 Swallow10 Umbra11 Crimson12 Reality13 Solace14 Ending
