‘Saturn’, the latest EP offering from Tomorrow We Sail, contains just one track, which has a running time of almost 20 minutes.
Recorded in collaboration with historian, poet, and occultist Alexander Cummins and inspired by the practice of Renaissance astrological magic. Saturn, the ruler of melancholy and sorrow provides the focus of this piece, with Cummins providing spoken word over a semi-ambient and largely improvised backdrop.
It’s certainly not lacking in atmosphere, and the piece transitions seamlessly hrouygh soft and reverent semi-choral sections as it builds passages of brooding darkness and deep currents worthy of its subject matter and the gravitas of celestial deities and their powers over mere earthly mortals. Cummins evokes the spirits with commanding force. Around the midpoint, it builds to something of a crescendo, Cummins adopting an excited, hectoring tone. A maudlin piano accompanied by subtly orchestrated strings gives way to a building rumble of amorphous sound. It’s a powerful, bold and moving work that’s genuinely awe-inspiring.
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