The New Heaven and the New Earth
All Saints' Day

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All Saints' Day is the reason Catholic School children can sleep off their candy comas on November 1; the yin to Halloween's yang. It is also The New Heaven and The New Earth's recorded debut. It is the love child of the poison of guilt and the promise of redemption. Masculine yet feminine; insular yet accessible; stalwart yet fragile. It is the product of paradox, that same internal struggle that plagued those holy men to whom The New Heaven and The New Earth pay tribute in deed if not in word.

Roger Alejandro Martinez is that rare songwriter, the avant classicist. The fruits of his craft are both foreign yet oddly familiar. The fingerpicked guitars and autoharp recall a distant America, now just a memory; yet the country All Saints Day calls home is not Appalachia. It is farther away, foggier, a nation born of myth and superstition. Understated strings weave in and out of harmoniums, like a whip-poor-will lost among the pines. Pianos ring out from beneath the haze. Harmonies haunt these songs like the ghosts of so many ashen witches.

This cassette release is encased in spraypainted butterboard, and each case features cut-out "stained glass" windows made with tin-foil, tape, and magic marker.

RIYL sacred hearts, chloroform, arpeggios.

All Saints' Day is being released on cassette in a limited run of 100.