Title track for Hyperboreal's forthcoming double album. Cello introduction by Jason Brock leads into a track dedicated to the first interstellar lifeforms to settle on this little know geological wonder, the archean inselberg, Mt. Cheminus, in northeastern Ontario.
Side 1, Track 1

Archean Cheminus

This is a piece that evokes the sounds of foliage in thick morning fog high up in the pristine cloud forests of Costa Rica.

Cloud Forest

A slow movement of sounds moving inward and then flowing back out to the void

Tidal Spiral - Dmix Copy Master

Pan Demon Strum

Plastic Atolls -nu

Mental Chase With Steven K.

Silvan Headlands

As silence settles once again
A fragrance in the air respirates 
The scent of pine resin sustained
Sour rawness of fresh cut states.

A short-lived peace returns
To these silvan headlands old.

These are the sweet sounds 
of plant spirits returning.

As we move through bramble,
Berry, bear’s hair and briar
Along untrodden paths we ramble
Escape from the machine’s loud blare

Cross the far lost headlands reaching
Approach to an endless chaos of waves
Just beyond these quiet groves’ teachings
The wordless Oak and Cedar enclaves.

A short-lived peace returns
To these silvan headlands old.

These are the ancient sounds 
of plant spirits returning.

In these quiet forested fingers,
Criss-crossed by tumble-foaming
Glistening and ruminating rivers
The blood waters are babble roaming.

Synapse blossoms catch angled beams
from a distant weeping canopy
Above headland’s intercoursing streams
Twixt mystery and annihilation are we.

A short-lived peace returns
To these silvan headlands old.

These are the eternal sounds 
of plant spirits returning.

To the rear, we turn together, in wonder
Meet the fumes of oil and steel
The razing of the wilderness plundered
Arrogant, as Earth’s skin we peal.

04 - Silvan Headlands

O. Cruerer on Digitakt...G.Ellman on MoFo synthe...TomRed on soft synth and winds.
Recorded in the the Dermotorium, Dec. 25, 2022

Velvetine Psycho Solstice

A track from the Hyperboreal Double Album, Cheminus.

Serpent Spiral

We travelled to the site of an open-pit gold mine near Timmins, Ontario and videotaped from above this massive hole that has been carved into the boreal forest near a place called: Porcupine. The drone footage reminded me of some drawings and other things.

Flight Above Arsenic Pools

Hyperboreal is: Jason Brock, cello, stick, bass and synthe, and Dermot Wilson, spoken word, woodwinds and EWI. We live in the boreal forest and make soundscapes.

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