TED HEARNE & THE CROSSING 'farming' cd

OUT NOW! DBA360cdLimited to 20 copies (5 remaining)Vinyl edition available hereAccompanying Zine by Nia Easley available hereBandcamp edition available here Extremely limited overstock of a cd edition of FARMING, made for sale primarily at live performances. With his new album FARMING (out this fall via Deathbomb Arc), Ted Hearne — the composer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist praised by Pitchfork for creating “some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory” — confronts technology’s ominous encroachment upon humanity’s very being. Created in collaboration with the GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, FARMING tackles the long-tail impact of settler colonialism and its philosophical motivations on agricultural degradation, big tech utopianism, corporate religiosity, and the abstraction of community.  Hearne dives headfirst into the Uncanny Valley, conjuring a soundworld fraught with neck-breaking shifts and stylistic contradictions. Its unholy marriage of ersatz A