mh.t006 - Zack Kouns - Savage Histories of the Appalachian Region
myhand.thanx is so proud to release Zack's wonderful album! His music is so intense, rooted in American history, poetic and disturbing... Here's what he declares about it :
"Savage Histories of the Appalachian region" is an album about the underlying and unconcious wickedness in this world, the numinous sense of loss and the desperation this intimation stirs into being. That being said the setting could have been Uzbekistan, Kenya, Singapore or France; desperation and the mutilated modern man is a global phenomenon, maybe a commonality that we share the deepest with our fellow human organisms. Recognition of this rift is tantamount to the awakening of empathy; empathy being our most human but conversely our most divine characteristic. To understand is to forgive, to truly love and cherish, to be merciful and to be honest with ourselves and others. Seemingly simple and logical requests from one suffering being to another, but simplicity itself has an astounding, ancient and directly felt force that by it's very startling nature renders its concept complex and difficult, making music the ideal conveyor of this abstract idea (music itself hinting, suggesting and brushing often unintentionally against our broadest and most archetypal understandings.)
Thank you to Shelby Lee Adams and Arch Napier for authorising the free use of the artwork photograph