Today, Walkmen-founder and Fortune Tellers label head Peter Matthew Bauer shares "Mountains On Mountains." Brooklyn Vegan premiered the track, praising its "stripped-back but also cinematic" sound and speculating the song is "perhaps referencing the mid-'00s NYC scene and where it stands now."
Like much of Bauer's solo output, "Mountains on Mountains" is esoteric leaning in nature, drawing influence from his upbringing in a yoga cult, the crisscrosses of that experience with the current climate of mass cult thought, as well as Sufi mysticism and work of the western phenomenologist and Islamic scholar Henry Corbin. A direct influence on one of the lyrics was Peter Sloterdijk’s book Neither Sun nor Death. It also has hints of nostalgia for the late 90s and early 2000s in both New York City specifically, and playing music throughout America at that time. In a sense, the song is about how that specific generation of 20th-century weirdos and the communities surrounding them feel like they are disappearing.
Describing the background of "Mountains On Mountains," Bauer says: This is the first track of my own that I've recorded and decided to release in a long time. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it: it's a pretty dark song about certain types of people and memories fading away. But it also has this feeling of no expectations, so it leaves me with a sense of optimism and presence in the end. Nick Stumpf and I started recording it for a fundraiser for Fairfight around the elections. Later we decided to take this barebones live recording and make it into something more proper and special. |
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