NEWS: Breath unveil “Sanliurfa”!

Portland meditative Doom band Breath have inked a deal with Argonauta Records for their next burnt offering, an album titled “Brahman” that marks the recording debut with the band of both keyboard player Lauren Hatch and guitarist Justin Acevedo. Described as a vehicle for exploring inner landscapes through philosophies that transcend the physical world, the project began to bear fruit in 2020 with childhood friends Steven O’Kelly and Ian Caton at the heart of everything they do. Having already given us the gift of “Awen“, a second single in “Sanliurfa” is now streaming with the record due on 24th October.

The band comment: “An exploration into the feeling of metaphysical communion among peers. Doorways between vast celestial ocean above and worlds within. A page less tome in vault of mind. Carved faces in stone relief, tethered to a time. Behind their eyes lie long memory, patient in waiting to arise. Frozen sleep undone by sheer will on tireless wings. This song was given great care by collaborators Rob Wrong (guitar), & Lauren Hatch (Keys) in concert with Breath’s Bass and Drums. Building on the atmosphere of a cold pre dawn setting, the serpentine sonic route a meditative mind treads.”

“BRAHMAN is an ode to the unchanging all pervasive true reality. It exists in and is the connective thread shared by all living things. The Trimurti in chorus, you and I, all one awareness. Music in service to the mirror of nature, to what can arise through stillness. These songs were originally written as a three-piece opened to an expanded potential from our two-piece beginning. First enlisting fellow Portlander and peer musician Lauren Hatch on Keys. After recording, Rob Wrong (Witch Mountain, The Skull) was struck with inspiration to write and record guitar for the entire album. This unforeseen development and synchronicity continued, folding in new aspects like the appearance of TJ Minnich (Spitalfield) on Djembe in tracks 2 [“Awen”] & 5 [“Cedars of Lebanon”].

Fed by a magnetic fascination to the mystery schools and Shamanic rites of ancient peoples. Emerging reborn, a mediator of this world and the other. Singing to trees, speaking with animals, imbued with the secret lore. At a cost they overcame with the treasure they sought. It’s losing ourselves in the woods or meditation and transmuting those experiences into the vibrational feeling and space our musical fingerprint holds.”