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HSAL #38 - "Cross My Heat"

by Steve Scott

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD includes full album in a full-color, four-panel gatefold wallet. Inside panel includes inspiration stories from Steve's travels. Cover image is mixed media presentation by Steve. Artwork assembled by HSAL.

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The Eclipse 05:32
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Lilias 07:53

about

"Cross My Heat" is Scott's first release in nearly two decades (1998's "Crossing The Boundaries"). Difficult to categorize, these nine pieces blend Steve's penchant for life-reflecting prose & ethno-electronica.

"If you like music that intrigues and challenges, lyrics (or poems) that question and provoke, or if you simply need a new cult musician to listen to, Steve Scott is your man." (International Times)

"While this is all going on, there are various forms of music being played to accompany these words. It can be spatial, trippy, filled with wind chimes or record player-like static. But most of all, these songs have a feeling of the end of the world. I imagine Steve Scott reciting these words not in a smoke-filled dive bar with a small excuse for a stage, but rather around the ash and rubble of what was once the world, perhaps some of it still ablaze behind him. I believe nothing left is real except for the words which pour from his mouth." (Raised By Gypsies)

"My conundrum as a reviewer is that it is much harder to classify the recording enough to make it crystallize in your mind, much less entice you to give it a try. It has no beat. You can’t dance to it. But Scott’s voice, super-clear with his British accent still in play, is eminently listenable and never comes across as a sleep aid, as one might presume a poetry recording to be. Much as a good song will do something to you and for you, even if it does not make your body move, so too do Scott’s performances here." (Popdose)

"Its nine tracks draw on sources as diverse as the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Roger Grainger’s book Watching for Wings: Theology and Mental Illness in a Pastoral Setting, and the toys and storybooks in a child’s bedroom. What unifies the selections is their sharing in what Scott has called the “humanizing and socializing function” of all serious art—namely, the requirement that anyone intent on appreciating it must “slow down.” (World News Group)

credits

released October 13, 2017

(c) 2017 Semionaut Music (ASCAP)
All tracks performed, & assembled by S.Scott from 2009 - 2017.
Recorded & Mixed at Studio W, Sacramento CA.
Engineers: Jimmy Ward & Jason Cambell.
Mastered: Michael Roe.

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Steve Scott Sacramento, California

Upon completing art school in the mid-1970’s, Steve moved to the United States at the request of a small record label and began recording songs. He now has eleven albums of original work released on several small independent labels. The work ranges from rock music to more experimental poetry and spoken word, performed over electronic loop based compositions. ... more

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