My Ruin Has Become My Splendour EP

by WindHymn

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Being Born 08:21
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To The Place Where The Streams Flow 08:13
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WindHymn 10:00
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This EP and its companion piece, “My Splendour Has Become My Ruin” were originally intended to be a full-length album titled “My Splendour Has Become My Ruin” I have no idea where the title came from, but I’d written it on a pencil sketch that I’d drawn a couple of years ago. I tried searching for it on Google, as I thought “There’s no way I’ve thought of something as profound as that, but I can’t find it anywhere, so maybe I did?

The cover art is taken from photographs taken by my Wife and myself when we’ve been hiking around the place I grew up. I love seeing old farm machinery and stuff like that rusting away in fields, overgrown with nettles. I don’t know why. I think it just reminds me of being a child and seeing things like this on my paternal and maternal Grandfather’s farms. There was something incredibly mysterious about these things. This is perhaps why I like to leave my own sculptures unpainted and just let them develop a patina of rust, it somehow makes them instantly more interesting to me.

Inspired by my favourite R.E.M. record, “Fables of the Reconstruction” I imagined this being released on vinyl, with side A titled “My Splendour Has Become My Ruin” and side B, “My Ruin Has Become My Splendour”but I decided at the last minute to split the album into two EPs instead.

Together they tell a story, but I don’t want to impose what that is on you before you listen. They are also related to the “WindHymn” Sound Installation project, so please see here for more details about that: windhymn1.bandcamp.com/album/a-sound-installation

Please let the music speak for itself, but after you’ve listened, please see here for the explanation of the concept behind “My Splendour Has Become My Ruin”/“My Ruin Has Become My Splendour”: windhymn1.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-place-where-the-streams-flow-redux-ep

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released February 5, 2021

All music and artwork by WindHymn.

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“When the author walks on to the stage the play is over...when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and...something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others...something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.” C.S Lewis ... more

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