"Raven" was the first new Organum album release since "SOROW" in 2010 (Siren Records) and was recorded in 2017. For its realisation, Organum was comprised of David Jackman, Alan Jones, and Daisuke Suzuki.

"Raven" is composed of striking piano-keys, church bells, temple gongs, a crow, a raven and a rook and is divided into 13 parts. Sounds appear from silence and then return again into that silence. "Raven" is a work within those very silences. You can contemplate emptiness intently after the sounds have ended. As in Basho's Haiku poems: "The old pond, a frog jumps in, then silence again".

This album is similar to Organum's first 12", "Tower Of Silence", and a listener will reflect that absence and emptiness are the permanent essences of Organum's music, within the chaos and flux of its phenomena. Less is more and Organum leave with us only the bare essentials. "Raven" is neither a hymn, nor a requiem.

Ltd x 500 copies, packaged in a white tip-on outsized cardboard jacket with insert.

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