No River Long Enough Doesn't Contain a Bend

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“No River Long Enough Doesn’t Contain a Bend finds High Aura’d’s bleak, wordless Americana is at its most visual—patiently building in intensity and lingering like clouds of smoke. On past releases, John Kolodij’s guitar drones rattled with the ominous fury of thunder (or a black metal band). Here, he conjures a wider range of textures: stirring guitar soli; starry post-rock; vicious noise. His music now sounds as dark and burdened as the country it depicts. His record takes you places.”
— Sam Sodomsky
“John Kolodij sketches a future past with rugged Americana smoked in tea leaves, sheer drones wrapped in muslin cloth. ”
— Lars Gotrich, NPR
“High Aura’d makes music to change your mind. This can mean calm or excitement, hypnosis or agitation, dreams or nightmares. But whatever effect it provokes, “No river long enough doesn’t contain a bend...” will change your neural paths for the better.”
— Marc Masters
"#1 Drone Record of 2017. This one has Kolodij walking down a different path, one where the natural landscape is more apparent, where the unaccompanied acoustic guitar pieces are elaborated upon and more essential. This is the Earth cast under a shadow with despondent sanctuaries littered throughout an otherwise grim & desolate terrain. A thread through all of this, though, is an underlying feeling that the worst is behind you, that maybe there’s something shimmering just beyond the horizon. "
-Justin Snow, Anti-Gravity Bunny

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released October 27, 2017

The album features an small army of longtime collaborators: including John Twells (Xela), the renowned trumpeter Greg Kelley, Glenna Van Nostrand (Omnivore), Ken Linehan,and Angel Olsen.

Mastered by Helge Sten, Audio Virus LAB
Design by Kevin Gan Yuen for viraloptic.com
Short Story by William Cody Watson

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