Origin of the Alimonies

by Liturgy

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William Knight Coming out and releasing a black metal/avant garde classical album that includes a black metal Messiaen cover is absolute queen shit.

a_morlock_gotta_eat Some historian is gonna have an interesting time with this one I think many years from now. Favorite track: SIHEYMN's Lament.

Denni Boger I'm so glad this music lives.

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1.	The Separation of HAQQ from HAEL 04:31	buy track
2.	OIOION's Birth 01:47	buy track
3.	Lonely OIOION 04:40	buy track
4.	The Fall of SIHEYMN 04:47	buy track
5.	SIHEYMN's Lament 03:41	buy track
6.	Apparition of the Eternal Church 14:02	buy track
7.	The Armistice 03:47	buy track

about

Origin of the Alimonies is Liturgy’s fifth full-length album and their first to fully integrate Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s vision of total art, or what she calls Perichoresis, with her musical compositions. The music amplifies a dramatic narrative addressing the question of the origin of all things, which itself aesthetically grounds the content of Hunt-Hendrix’s ongoing philosophical YouTube series on her System of Transcendental Qabala.

The album is by far Liturgy’s most meticulous and radical statement, pushing their characteristic synthesis between black metal, minimalism, experimental club music, and 19th–century romanticism to new extremes. Exploring microtonality, free improvisation, polymetric structures and Richard Wagner’s ideas of musikdrama and leitmotif, Hunt-Hendrix employs her unique “burst beat” technique to bind together the rhythmic signatures of metal, experimental club and classical music in the service of speech patterns and narrative flow.

Featuring the virtuosic playing of bandmates Leo Didkovsky, Tia Vincent-Clark and Bernard Gann, the entire album also includes flute, piano, harp, strings and horns performed by a 8-piece chamber ensemble drawn from New York’s various avant-garde music scenes.

Influenced by kabbalah, German Idealism and French post-structuralism, the opera tells the story of a cosmogonical traumatic explosion between OIOION and SIHEYMN, a pair of divine beings whose thwarted love tears a wound from which civilization is generated, producing the Four Alimonies of the intelligible universe and the task of collective emancipation.

Outside the narrative frame, the piece is meant to foster productive discord between the modes of attention and political commitments that implicitly accompany its various genres, as well as to hover in the liminal territory between the music industry, the art world and the contemporary philosophy community, reiterating the message of Jesus via William Blake by belonging nowhere, only half-comprehensible within any established framework, puncturing hypocritical ideologies while crying out in the name of love.

The album is accompanied by a new, eponymous album-length operatic video written, directed, shot, edited by and starring Hunt-Hendrix, who uses her evolving body, in the wake of her recent gender affirmation as a trans woman, as the medium for the story.

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released November 20, 2020

Performers:

LITURGY
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix - vocals, guitar, production
Bernard Gann - guitar
Tia Vincent-Clark - bass
Leo Didkovsky - drums

Eve Essex - flutes, saxophone
Nate Wooley - trumpet
Josh Modney - violin
Carrie Frey - viola
Caleigh Drane - cello
James Ilgenfritz - double bass
Eric Wubbels - piano, organ
Marilu Donovan - harp

All music composed and arranged by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
Except "Apparition of the Eternal Church" composed for solo organ by Olivier Messiaen, expanded and arranged by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

Libretto, album art and layout by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

Recorded and mixed by Seth Manchester
Additional engineering by AJ Tissian
Mastered by Joe LaPorta

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Liturgy Brooklyn, New York

Liturgy is the project of Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, whose yearning, energetic “transcendental black metal” exists in the space between metal, experimental, classical music and sacred ritual. The band is simultaneously a platform for fine art and theology ... more

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Jun 10

Bar le Ritz PDB

Montreal, QC
Jun 11

The Garrison

Toronto, ON
Jun 13

Buffalo's Mohawk Place

Buffalo, NY
Jun 14

Grog Shop

Cleveland, OH
Jun 15

The Sanctuary Detroit

Hamtramck, MI
Jun 16

The Empty Bottle

Chicago, IL
Jun 16

The Empty Bottle

Chicago, IL
Jun 17

Turf Club

St. Paul, MN
Jun 18

The Aquarium

Fargo, ND
Jun 21

Dickens

Calgary, AB
Jun 23

Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Vancouver, BC
Jun 24

Substation

Seattle, WA
Jun 25

Star Theater

Portland, OR
Jun 27

Cafe Colonial

Sacramento, CA
Jun 28

The Independent

San Francisco, CA
Jun 29

Resident

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Jun 30

The Underground

Mesa, AZ
Jul 01

Sister

Albuquerque, NM
Jul 03

The Lost Well

Austin, TX
Jul 04

The End

Houston, TX
Jul 05

Gasa Gasa

New Orleans, LA
Jul 07

The Earl

East Atlanta, GA
Jul 08

The Pour House Music Hall & Record Shop

Raleigh, NC
Jul 10

Richmond Music Hall

Richmond, VA
Jul 11

Metro Baltimore

Baltimore, MD
Jul 12

MilkBoy Philly

Philadelphia, PA
Aug 16

Fernhill Farm

Compton Martin, UK
Aug 21

Trillians

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Aug 22

Brudenell Social Club

Leeds, UK
Aug 23

The Green Door Store

Brighton, UK
Aug 24

London Oslo

London, UK
Sep 22

Cassiopeia

Berlin, Germany
Sep 23

Underdogs'

Prague, Czech Republic
Sep 25

Arena Wien

Vienna, Austria
Sep 26

Instant-Fogas Komplexum

Budapest, Hungary
Sep 29

Institut Für Zukunft

Leipzig, Germany
Sep 30

Arminius Kerk

Rotterdam, Netherlands
Oct 01

Little Devil

Tilburg, Netherlands
Oct 03

Patronaat

Haarlem, Netherlands
Oct 04

TRIX

Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 05

Petit Bain

Paris, France
Oct 06

Connexion Live

Toulouse, France
Oct 07

Sala Vol

Barcelona, Spain
Oct 08

El Perro de la Parte de Atrás del Coche

Madrid, Spain

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