Recording: Heraclitus Akimbo

Artist: Heraclitus Akimbo

Song: Hanging Heart/Crean

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), February 20, 2019.

Heraclitus Akimbo - Hanging Heart/Crean

Sometimes, certain memories keep bubbling up to the surface. At some point, a floaty, drifty feeling in some music I was making put my mind back to the lakes I'd canoed over when I was a kid living in Saskatchewan. And that brought to mind a particular story that had stuck with me all my life, but that I had rarely told aloud. The end result of all this was Four Lakes in Prince Albert National Park, which in turn lead to this release show, celebrating a limited (and quickly sold out!) CD-R run from Arachnidiscs Recordings.

For this set, I managed to pull off the talking story that's at the heart of the record, as well as this piece presented here — a fifth lake, if you will. Rather than the canoe glides of the album's works this memory is at motorboat speed (as expressed by the underlying rumble) and a sense of feeling dwarfed by the giant lake (the largest one fully contained a National Park). I don't know if people fishing in P.A.N.P. still use hunks of frozen beef heart for bait, but the memory of it being next to the Mr. Freeze I was eagerly hunting for at the Hanging Heart marina's shack is in this somewhere too.

[Heraclitus Akimbo will be performing a duo set — pedal manipulations on double bass — with mkl32 at a Special offsite Audiopollination, Tuesday, April 30th at Wenona Lodge.]

photo by Jakob Rehlinger