Dawnwalker is the long-running progressive post-metal project from London guitarist/vocalist Mark Norgate. For Norgate’s seventh full-length, The Between, he’s assembled a cast of 12 musicians—from saxophonists to pianists to percussionists to vocalists—to accompany him on a single 32-minute track, “The Between.” The track sprawls out like a guided meditation piece, complete with intermittent narration, and seamlessly floats from dreamy soundscapes to more tension-filled dirges on its extended path. It is, however, never boring, as instruments and voices are woven in and out of the musical narrative.
The Between was engineered by Stanley Gravett at Holy Mountain, London. It was mixed by Scott McLean at Neon Fable, Edinburgh and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Portland. It’s set for release on vinyl and digitally on October 24 via Room312. Place your preorder here.
Quote from Mark Norgate:
“The Between is our ‘bardo’ record and very much a big meditation on death and mortality. It also feels like a culmination of everything we’ve been doing musically these last 10 or so years, with a few callbacks to our other works, and bringing together the different sides of our personalities into one totemic piece.”
