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| Hanalei Releases Black Snow A-F Records has released Hanalei’s much-anticipated new album Black Snow. The album is currently streaming in its entirety at the A-F Records Bandcamp. The label has also released the album on vinyl. Black Snow is available on all digital providers now. STREAM: BLACK SNOW Bio: I keep pinching myself to make sure I’m alive. Have we all been unknowingly transported into some cruel alternate universe where what was once confined to imagination has become reality? As I write this, California is burning and a pandemic is ravaging the globe. Police are murdering innocent people of color at-will, domestic terrorism is being thinly veiled as patriotism, facts and logic are ignored, a cartoonish, malevolent blob is nearing totalitarian control and love is lost. This can’t be real. I began writing ‘Black Snow’ roughly two years after finding out my wife was pregnant. The process served as a means of coping with the relentless anxiety and bouts of depression that polluted my expected joy. How could I bring a child into a world on the verge of collapse? The record is a non-linear, fictional collage, set in the not-so-distant future, following the destruction of our climate and the subsequent disintegration of modern society. The songs are primarily narrated from varying first person perspectives: the last standing bristlecone pine, a virus unearthed by fracking (this one was written a year before Covid hit and obviously feels eerily relevant now), the collective voice of animals subjected to human wrath, an estranged lover in a drought-parched Northern Californian landscape, a post-apocalyptic traveler who unearths a working smartphone, the self-serving climate change denier, a father and son choosing optimism and action over apathy and surrender, and so forth. Consider this a warning. Fiction is finding its way from far-flung to here and now. FFO: John K. Samson, Craig Finn, Laura Stevenson, Kevin Devine  Release Date: 3/12/21 Label: A-F Records Formats: Digital | Vinyl Hanalei: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram A-F Records: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Album Credits: Brian Moss – Bass, Guitars, Keys, Vocals Jerry Andersen (Daikon) – Drums Josh Staples (The Velvet Teen/The New Trust) – Additional Vocals Ryan Marshall (Great Apes) – Additional Vocals Keeley Valentino – Additional Vocals Produced, recorded, and mixed at home by Brian Moss Drums were recorded by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden Mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden Photo: Laura Lee Mattingly |