Recorded in Bears Ears National Monument, Nashville, Oslo and Los Angeles
New studio album based on field recordings I made in Bears Ears National Monument Utah in the spring of 2018. In December 2017, it was announced that the Trump Administration would reduce the National Monument by 85% in size ? over 1 million acres, opening new mineral and oil and gas leasing opportunities, easing drilling regulations, and rolling back habitat protections for endangered species.
I wanted to record the soundscape in Bears Ears National Monument before it was changed, so I packed up my field recorders and flew out to the desert. I first captured the soundscape, then synthesized those recordings in different ways back in the studio. They became the foundation for this record, even if they?re now unrecognizable.
