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Procession (Alrealon Musique)

by Mark Harris / JOHN 3:16

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Tracklist:
1. Procession (4:36)
2. Cold Like The Stars (6:40)
3. He once made us tremble_He once Inspired awe (3:43)
4. Men of Sand (7:32)
5. When The Lord Took My Hand (8:48)
6. We Walk Across The Rooftops (9:00)
7. Hades_Unseen (6:30)
Total time: 46:50

Limited Edition 4-Panel CD.

When Philippe and I started work on the material that would become the Album “Procession” was in the fall of 2017 after the release of “Victory over the Sun” the year before.

The only ground rule we set was we both felt “Victory” felt like a collaboration between two very different artists (which of course is exactly what it was!) we wanted the next album to feel more like a single unit or band / as on “Victory” we felt you could still hear my contribution and Philippe’s as individual elements...

Me and Philippe both work on either side of the Atlantic Ocean so all materials were shared online between us - we would send each other samples / live improvisations / multitrack ‘final’ pieces which we would then individually proceed to rip apart, for example a bass part from one piece would be removed time stretched and used as the basis for a live improvisation, which Philippe would do a series of live improvised reactions to - which I would re EQ and processes using granular synthesis software - and use on another unrelated track - the resulting track would be mixed and sent back to the other and the process would be repeated...

Often Philippe would record live improvised guitar parts to tracks which were so on the money I would dump everything I had done and start building a track around Philippe’s guitar part...

And gradually with each track having 20 - 30 versions a finished piece would emerge - on each track I spent a considerable amount of time re-EQ’ing elements and combined with Philippe superb mastering has kept a crunchy live feel to the album.

I made extensive use of field recordings of sacred spaces (such as churches, mosques, forests in the middle of the night, caves etc) which were mixed into the pieces to open up the stereo image - which enhanced the epic feel of the recordings...

We both felt the Album brings to mind strange occult rituals by unnamed dark Lovecraft-like religious cults hence the title “Procession”.

Enjoy...

Mark Harris

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released March 3, 2023

Mark Harris: Live Electronics, Sound Processing.
Philippe Gerber aka JOHN 3:16: Guitars, Bass, Drums, and Moog Pedals.

Mixed by Mark Harris.
Mastered by Philippe Gerber / All Real Sound.

Cover art by Mark Harris.

Mark Harris - soundcloud.com/mark-harris
JOHN 3:16 - john316.bandcamp.com

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JOHN 3:16 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

JOHN 3:16 is Philippe Gerber, whose Heat From A DeadStar existed between 2004–09 and worked with Rick Harte/Ace Of Hearts Records in Boston. As JOHN 3:16, Gerber has released numerous works via Alrealon Musique, Flood Records, 75orLess, White Label Music, Venus Aeon, Classwar Karaoke, and more. He has collaborated with artists such as Pas Musique, TheUse, Rasplyn, Anthony Donovan, and Mark Harris. ... more

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