[2016-07-29] Cotton Mather "Death Of The Cool" reunion album (Star Apple Kingdom)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:41 pm

Description
It did not take 15 years for Cotton Mather's Austin-based main man, Robert Harrison to write the 64 songs (64 songs!) that comprise his latest musical vision, one song for each hexagram (defined as any of a set of 64 figures made up of six parallel whole or broken lines) of the I Ching, it's actually the amount of time that has passed since the last full-length album of new Cotton Mather songs was released. With so much new material on deck, it seems like Harrison is making up the difference.

Half a dozen tracks from this treasure trove of new tunes have already been posted one-by-one "in real time and real weather" as Harrison describes this creative process, and now the first of an eventual four albums that will ultimately contain much of the entire song cycle, has been announced. Arriving on July 29th, the eleven-track Death of the Cool contains another nine of Harrison's pure pop meditations on Chinese philosophy, along with the two currently available tracks that initially announced the project The Book of Too Late Changes (based on I Ching hexagram #24: The Return) and Child Bride (based on #4: Youthful Folly).

Tracklist
1. The Book of Too Late Changes
2. Close to the Sun
3. The Middle of Nowhere
4. Candy Lilac
5. Life of the Liar
6. The Land of Flowers
7. Never Be It
8. Queen of Swords
9. Waters Raging
10. Child Bride
11. The End of DeWitt Finley

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GIRT860/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:54 pm

"The Book Of Too Late Changes":

"Child Bride":

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:59 pm

All six tracks mentioned in the album description can be streamed from this page. The selection includes the two songs in the previous post, both of which will be on Death Of The Cool, plus four additional non-album tracks:

http://www.ichingsongs.com

[2016-07-29] Cotton Mather "Death Of The Cool" reunion album (Star Apple Kingdom)

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