We Walk the Young Earth

We Walk the Young Earth is the third full-length release from The Blithe Sons, the duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson. The Sons’ 2000 debut combined studio constructions with field recordings, but by the second album, the studio had moved completely outdoors. Acoustic and battery-powered instruments were recorded via field-mic in a grassy meadow bristling with insects, birds and wind. We Walk the Young Earth continues this outdoor-recording practice and was edited from performances that took place under a creek bridge in San Gregorio and inside WWII-era bunkers on sea cliffs in the Marin Headlands, California. With acoustic guitar, harps, bells, har-monium, toy-amplifiers, gongs submerged in a creek, cymbals, battery-powered keyboards, vocals, banjo, birds, pipes, bell-blocks, drums, branches and the location itself as an instrument, We Walk the Young Earth weaves minimalist hymns with stark drones.