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Eggnogg Reveal First Track from New Album Rituals in Transfigured Time – Prologue

Posted in Whathaveyou on July 5th, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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While most of the US was grilling out and getting loaded yesterday in an effort to pretend everything’s just the same in 2017 as it’s always been, Brooklyn three-piece Eggnogg decided it was a good time to unveil a track from their first long-player in six years. The song is a 14-minute two-parter called “Overture / Wild Goose Chase,” and it breaks down into another component three-pieces — ‘Iapetus,’ ‘The Eggnogg Requiem’ and ‘Wild Goose Chase’ — and the album it comes from seems to be part of an intended series as well. Long thought to be called You’re all Invited, it has apparently been dubbed Rituals in Transfigured Time – Prologue and given narrative and visual accompaniment by guitarist Justin Karol, who lends his distinctive cartoon style to each section of the track, introducing the audience to the characters who may or may not play out a story across the album or albums. It’s all pretty nebulous, but there’s more about it on Karol‘s personal website.

I’m not sure what Eggnogg‘s plan for releasing Rituals in Transfigured Time – Prologue actually is, whether they’ll dole it out one song at a time or eventually have a physical version out via their longtime label Palaver Records. Their last offering was 2015’s Sludgy Erna Bastard split with Borracho (review here), which was preceded by the 2012 Louis EP (review here) and their last proper full-length, 2011’s Moments in Vacuum (review here).

Though it winds up in the kind of stomp and swing that’s become a hallmark of Eggnogg‘s sound, “Overture / Wild Goose Chase,” particularly in its patient initial unfolding minutes, seems also to signal progressive impulses that are new to the band. You can hear the song in its multi-faceted entirety at the bottom of this post, and the cover art — I’m guessing that’s Karol‘s manga-informed vision of death with the scythe, though no word on how she’ll play into the story arc — and recording info follow here.

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Big Snuff Studio Presents: Rituals in Transfigured Time – Prologue

MUSIC WRITTEN BY EGGNOGG
JUSTIN KAROL, WILLIAM O’SULLIVAN, and JASON PRUSHKO

DIRECTED BY
JUSTIN KAROL

1. Overture / Wild Goose Chase 13:51

eggnogg rituals in transfigured time prologueOVERTURE
Iapetus (00:00-04-20)
The Eggnogg Requiem (04:20-06:02)

-WILD GOOSE CHASE
Wild Goose Chase (06:02-13:51)

released July 4, 2017

WRITTEN by JUSTIN KAROL, WILLIAM O’SULLIVAN, JASON PRUSHKO
LYRICS by WILLIAM O’SULLIVAN

PERFORMANCES by JASON PRUSHKO (drums, percussion),
JUSTIN KAROL (electric guitar, electric bass, keyboard),
WILLIAM O’SULLIVAN (vocals, electric guitar, electric bass)

RECORDED at JUPITER 4 STUDIO – LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
ENGINEERED by STEVE SCHALK
RECORDED at 286 MESEROLE – BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
RECORDED at CHAPMAN FARM – TOWN OF MARSHALL, NEW YORK
RECORDED at BIG BEVERAGE STUDIO – NEW YORK, NEW YORK

MIXING & MASTERING by BIG BEVERAGE STUDIO – NEW YORK, NEW YORK. ARRANGEMENT by JUSTIN KAROL. ILLUSTRATED by JUSTIN KAROL. PRODUCED by K.W. KOGUT & RON BORRUSO.

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Eggnogg, “Overture / Wild Goose Chase”

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