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Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy

by Young Weather

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I. Retorno 03:29
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II. Arrest 02:36
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VI. Miracle 03:57
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VII. Mystery 03:25
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Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy is a collection of nine poems written from the story of “The Grand Inquisitor,” in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The poems accompany nine songs composed alongside them, released under author Dustin Ragland’s musical project, Young Weather. Read in concert with the music or independently, the poems put Ivan Karamazov’s fictional poem into contemporary verse and offer a new encounter with one of the classics of Russian literature.

These nine songs chart Ragland's developing approaches to composition with electronic musical instruments, steering a bit from his previously live band full-length works. Over the past half-decade, Ragland has released several ambient-textural EPs and remixes, and this new collection showcases a meeting point between his synthetic sound imagination, and his acoustic processes: acoustic drum kit processed through guitar pedals; balalaika chiming through ambient granular effects; monome-generated rain curtains of piano; custom multi-channel synths built in Max/MSP.

The sonic adventures coincide with a literary heart, always looking to interlace written text with musical texture, and create new borderlands wherever the two meet.

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released July 19, 2019

All songs composed and performed by Dustin Ragland. Recorded March-July at Mir Studio in Oklahoma City. Mixed at Cardinal Song in Oklahoma City (special thank you to Michael Trepagnier). Mastered at Mir Studio.

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Young Weather Atlanta, Georgia

Young Weather is the project of Dustin Ragland & various collaborators in both studio and live settings through the years. Wrapping ambient electronic sound with a meter-hopping acoustic rhythm section - all around allusion-heavy lyricism.

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