Sawtooth Monk to Release Goddess Empress Sept. 10
Boise-based mostly-solo outfit Sawtooth Monk — aka Travis X. Abbott, also of Ealdor Bealu — released the full-length Peregrination earlier this year and has set Sept. 10 as the release date for an instrumental companion-piece titled Goddess Empress derived of material from the same recording period. It is led off by “Goddess” and closes with “Empress,” so not much mystery perhaps as to from whence the title derives, but having dug Peregrination, I saw the Bandcamp update about the new offering, checked out the track that’s streaming — that would be “Goddess,” find it below, right on top of Peregrination in its entirety — and, well, dug that too. Sharing the release info seemed like a pretty straightforward proposition in my mind, and so here we are.
Interesting to see Abbott draw together different projects under the Sawtooth Monk moniker. I can’t help but wonder if he’s thinking of doing more in this kind of instrumental mode from here, or already has a backlog to work from. Either way, really, bringing it all together makes a lot of sense. We live in the age of branding, after all. Also plague. But even that has a brand name.
Release info follows:
Sawtooth Monk – Goddess Empress – Sept. 10
GODDESS EMPRESS is a collection of additional/leftover instrumental tracks from the Peregrination Sessions recorded between April 2020 & July 2021.
Originally, I had the idea of releasing this music under the name of an old, mostly-instrumental project called ‘Obscured By The Sun’ (obscuredbythesun.bandcamp.com). But after much consideration, I determined that it was best to leave this project in the past, regardless of how much I wanted to shed light on the music (along with the help I received on a few albums from the incredibly talented bassist Jacob Fredrickson). I did not think that these songs would fit in with what Sawtooth Monk is supposed to be at first, but I now realize that’s it’s all just part of the same game. Sawtooth Monk is just the name I have for the music I create mostly by myself.
– t
Releases September 10, 2021.
All instruments & music written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Travis X. Abbott at The Hawk’s Nest, Boise, ID
Tracklisting:
1. Goddess
2. Ormr
3. Sacred Ecology
4. Multiplicity
5. Miles
6. Signs of Ragnarok
7. Empress
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