Lux Interna - New Wilderness Gospel - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With their fifth album InchNew Wilderness GospelInch, American folk innovators Lux Interna present the centrepiece of a larger ongoing multimedia work that envisions an anthropocenic apocalypse. The seeds of this artistic synthesis were planted during Joshua's research for his doctoral dissertation, which involved translating and interpreting early modern esoteric manuscripts related to the heterodox mystic Jacob Böhme and his inner circle in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Against the backdrop of a disturbing series of environmental events affecting their live-work space in Northern California, Kathryn and Joshua began collaboratively exploring this emergent world and translating it into imagery, music, and film, which led to the idea of an apocalyptic 'gospel' for the anthropocene. Musically, Lux Interna spun InchNew Wilderness GospelInch out of diverse musical threads that include desert blues, Appalachian folk, gospel, gothic, psychedelia, post-punk and even, warped elements of 60s girl pop and 80s new wave. In the wake of their debut EP InchTruth, Beauty, and All Their SeverityInch (2000), Lux Interna have released four studio albums, beginning with InchAbsence and PlenumInch (2002), which was followed by InchIgnis Mutat ResInch (2004), InchGod Is Not Dead for the BirdsInch (2007), and the latest full-length InchThere Is Light in the Body, There Is Blood in the SunInch in 2013. With their Gesamtkunstwerk InchNew Wilderness GospelInch, Lux Interna reveal a thought-provoking and warning image of a natural apocalypse that has already sent it's harbingers to this world. The writing is on the wall - or rather in the lyrics as well as the breathtaking beauty of their music. Hark!