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all songs composed and arranged by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix - vocals, guitar, digital production
Bernard Gann - guitar
Tia Vincent-Clark - bass
Leo Didkovsky - drums
Eric Wubbels - piano on track 2
Charlotte Mundy - voice on tracks 1 and 3
Cory Bracken - vibraphone on tracks 4 and 6
Leo Didkovsky - glockenspiel on tracks 4 and 6
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix - piano on tracks 5, 7, 9
Tadlow Ensemble - strings on tracks 4 and 6
Marilu Donovan - harp on tracks 1, 3, 6, 8
Lucie Vitovka - hichiriki on track 1
Adam Robinson - ryuteki on track 1
Recorded in August 2019 and mixed by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Mastering
H.A.Q.Q. is the fourth studio album of transcendental black metal band Liturgy. Featuring their characteristic yearning guitar harmonies, epic song structures, and intense drumming, H.A.Q.Q. boils over with harp, piano, gagaku ensemble, pitched percussion, strings, and digital manipulation. It represents a consolidation of the band’s sound to date, a combination of the mathematical complexity of 2011’s Aesthethica and the glitchy experimental fervor of 2015’s The Ark Work. An open-hearted meditation on sincerity, courage and the nature of the divine, H.A.Q.Q. is perhaps Liturgy’s most personal record, exploring anger, bitterness, and mental health struggles as well as cosmic joy. In part a reflection on Liturgy’s own uniquely controversial career, it attempts to render the spirit of a cultural era whose basic fabric is unravelling, and to at the same time capture flashes of potential that might escape.
The album was composed by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix during 2018, drawing from a reservoir of material some of which had existed for years, while simultaneously creating his forthcoming opera Origin of the Alimonies and his philosophical System of Transcendental Qabala (depicted graphically on H.A.Q.Q.’s album cover). The composition of H.A.Q.Q. was a sudden detour, but it is related to these other bodies of work. After performing in the debut of Origin of the Alimonies in the fall of 2018, Tia Vincent-Clark and Leo Didkovsky joined Liturgy to bring the album to life before recording it in August of 2019 at Machines with Magnets with Seth Manchester.
H.A.Q.Q. stands for Haelegen above Quality and Quantity, and represents Hunt-Hendrix’s uniquely marxist and psychoanalytic vision of the kingdom of heaven.
Liturgy is a Brooklyn-based quartet whose yearning, energetic “transcendental black metal” exists in the space between metal, avant rock and sacred ritual. Celebrated for live performances that combine emotional chaos with technical precision, they have toured internationally and performed at major music festivals and art institutions around the world, including Pitchfork Festival, Primavera Sound, Big Ears, Greene Naftali, Museum of Modern Art, and Unsound. Its current lineup features Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (vocals,guitar), Bernard Gann (guitar), Tia Vincent-Clark (bass) and Leo Didkovsky (drums).The band was founded in the context of Brooklyn DIY as a high-concept solo project by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix in 2005 while he was studying philosophy and classical composition at Columbia. After expanding to a quartet they made waves globally with their 2011 sophomore album Aesthethica for introducing the style of Scandinavian black metal into the world of experimental art rock. Their ambitious 2015 album The Ark Work was controversial for its incorporation of IDM and trap production into their musical language. In fall 2018 the group debuted Hunt-Hendrix’s metaphysical opera Origin of the Alimonies in New York as a live score with a chamber ensemble.
4 сен 2019
