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Cotton Mather: The Book of Too Late Changes
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Cotton Mather harnesses the wisdom of the I Ching for massive 64-song, multi-album undertaking.
Cotton Mather’s much revered album Kontiki – originally issued in 1997, and then again as a deluxe edition in 2012 – was heavily influenced by Chinese philosophy, and the band’s mastermind, Robert Harrison is mining that subject matter again with his ambitious new project which represents the first all-new Cotton Mather music in more than a decade. “I’ve always been spiritually curious,” Harrison says of the subject matter. “I studied the I Ching in college but didn’t delve deep until later.” Delving is putting it mildly as Harrison intends to record one song for each of the ancient book of |
Chinese wisdom and advice’s 64 hexagrams, eventually packaging the tracks into several vinyl releases, but making them available digitally along the way.
He is releasing the tracks one by one, sharing the material in an organic, non-contrived way. Harrison says that 18 of the 64 songs have already been written, and the process of recording them is ongoing. The first tune to surface, “The Book of Too Late Changes,” is actually about surfacing itself. Or re-surfacing in this case. [via Fanatic]
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