Okkoto Posts New Single “All is Light”
I spent some significant hours two years ago with Okkoto‘s second album, the deeply evocative and resonant Climb the Antlers and Reach the Stars (review here), so to have a new single “All is Light” represent a forward step on the part of the project is welcome. Comprised once again solely of Michael Lutomski, formerly (I guess?) of cosmic explorers It’s Not Night: It’s Space, the outfit’s latest offering is not the first Okkoto to feature vocals, but I do think they might be the first ones from Lutomski himself. The prior album brought in Laura McLaughlin for a guest vocal spot on its closing track, and I’m honestly not sure about 2019’s debut LP, Fear the Veil Not the Void, because I don’t know it that well, but suffice it to say that the general modus of the project to this point has been instrumental and this isn’t.
The question, then, is whether Lutomski is staking out new ground he wants Okkoto to cover on the full-length that he says is “hopefully soon,” though he also notes it isn’t actually new. It’s a maybe/maybe-not as to whether “All is Light” represents a new approach for Okkoto, but my sense is that the project isn’t so rigidly defined or subject to hard and fast rules from is creator. Rather, I think the hopefulness being discussed there is related to inspiration; Lutomski is hopeful perhaps to have the time and energy to let then music come to him, never mind chasing it down through the woods of New Paltz.
Whenever it comes, and if that’s years from now, fine, I’ll invariably have high hopes for it, but in the adventurousness of what “All is Light” is doing and the immersion that ensues over the song’s seven minutes, the new single comes through as more than proof of life on the part of the project.
Player’s at the bottom:
“had this lying around for awhile now.
it’s been some long years. hopefully album(s) soon. see how the winter treats me.”
All is light
Through the night
All is light
All the time
Moon, Moon remember me
Down where the meadows dream by the sea
Stars in her hair and eyes all night long
Lost in your arms for a million years
Lothlorien rivers drink all our tears
Stars in her hair and eyes all night long
written, performed, recorded, and produced by Michael Lutomski
https://www.facebook.com/okkotomusic/
http://instagram.com/okkoto_music
https://okkotomusic.bandcamp.com/
