Starcrusher, The Silver Manifold, by The Curiously Strong Peppermints

Starcrusher, The Silver Manifold

by The Curiously Strong Peppermints

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1.	The Plight of The Loom 07:45	info	buy track
2.	MF 6 00:27	info	buy track
3.	Cellulose 12:48	info	buy track
4.	MF 2 00:45	info	buy track
5.	The Tropic of Skeksis 05:27	info	buy track
6.	MF 3 00:46	info	buy track
7.	Starcrusher 06:12	info	buy track
8.	MF 5 00:40	info	buy track
9.	The Invisible Needle in an Infinite Haystack 06:39	info	buy track
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11.	Triangles 07:23	info	buy track

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The fifth proper album by The Curiously Strong Peppermints sees a bit of a musical shift in the group -- or recording project, depending on how you look at it. Starcrusher, The Silver Manifold is a more experimental, improvisational and hypnotic album, heavily influenced by Krautrock legends Can.

A concept album about the COVID-19 pandemic, the basic rhythm tracks were recorded solely by lead-Peppermint Jesse Miller during the Minneapolis quarantine in April and May 2020. Additional overdubs were recorded that summer by the other band members while being socially distant -- by tracking in Jesse's patio of his home studio!

The end result is the most immediate Curiously Strong Peppermints album, a musical journey of the madness of the coronavirus, the breakdown of our society and how humans are dealing with the fear, isolation, desolation and division. Although thick with lyrical metaphor, Starcrusher, The Silver Manifold covers what every human being is experiencing right now.

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released October 27, 2020

The Curiously Strong Peppermints
STARCRUSHER, THE SILVER MANIFOLD

Produced by Jesse Miller
Recorded under quarantine at Colorwheel Studios, April-May 2020, with socially-distanced overdubs recorded in the patio, June-September 2020.
Mixed & mastered by Jesse Miller at Colorwheel Studios, October 2020

All songs & music written by Jesse Miller
(c) 2020 Soniclovenoize Music Publishing (BMI)

Artwork by Gretchen Doebler, photographed by Emily Tenczar

Jesse Miller - lead vocals, guitars & effects, bass, fuzz bass, drums,
Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, pipe organ, synths
Jeannette Kjos - saxophone, zanzithophone, clarinet
Emily Tenczar - glockenspiel, percussion
David Schmitz - guitar

The Choir of Dissent on "Cellulose" was Don Dickey, Jeannette Kjos, Joanie Rich, David Schmitz, Emily Tenczar & Nick Vittum

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The Curiously Strong Peppermints are an unexplained purple cumulonimbus cloud formation hovering above Western Abu Dhabi that has been emitting unusual sonic frequencies since 2004. If you stare at it long enough you can see a Jesse, a Ben, a Sean, and sometimes a David and Jeannette. Four pieces fell to earth, available here. ... more

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