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1.	Winchester's Dream 08:16	buy track
2.	Waiting on the Band/The Interloper 05:39	buy track
3.	Flowerthrower 04:53	buy track
4.	Mount Calvary Peacock 02:41	buy track
5.	Brand New Shirt 04:17	buy track
6.	Jubal 03:58	buy track
7.	Mist Came Down the Pedlar Hills/A Water Panther Speaks 04:45	buy track
8.	Sunshine Dog 04:32	buy track
9.	Weeping Cherry Cry 04:41	buy track

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Remarkable debut LP by new Cosmic-Appalachian string band, birthed from the same Virginia firmament that has brought you Pelt, Jack Rose, Black Twig Pickers, and Spiral Joy Band. Led by Mike Gangloff’s droning fiddle and Matt Peyton’s fingerpicked guitar, Eight Point Star mines the modal traditions of both old-time Appalachia and far-out drone music to produce beautiful tunes that are equal parts memorable and psychedelic. Side A starts with the gentle guitar and fiddle duet of “Winchester’s Dream” before segueing into the loping “Waiting on the Band,” where the subliminal pulse of Tim Thornton’s upright bass animates the music until the lengthy lock-groove repetition of “The Interloper.” Closing the side, “Flowerthrower” and “Mount-Calvary Peacock” have a vibe reminiscent of Popol Vuh’s mid-70’s masterpieces, combining sawing fiddle and melodic guitar with simple and haunting chord structures. Side B is bookended by two country-blues influenced numbers, with Matt Peyton’s boisterous vocal and guitar and Isak Howell’s harp leading the upbeat “Brand New Shirt” and the elegiac “Weeping Cherry Cry.” In between the two vocal features are a segued mini-epic of moods, including an expanded group lineup collapsing midway through “A Water Panther Speaks” into an eerie soundscape of singing bowls and distant gong sounds as dark as the night in remotest Virginia.

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released July 30, 2021

Mike Gangloff: Fiddle, hardanger-style fiddle, singing bowls, gong, backup vocals
Matt Peyton: Guitar, theremin, vocals
Isak Howell: Harp, sruti box
Tim Thornton: Bass, sruti box, backup vocals

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Joe Dejarnette: Bass, singing bowl (appears on Sunshine Dog, The Interloper, A Water Panther Speaks);
Caleb Flood: Drums, keyboard (appears on Sunshine Dog, The Interloper, A Water Panther Speaks);
Cara Gangloff: Backup vocals on Brand New Shirt

Mostly recorded at home December 2019-February 2020 in Poplar Hollow, Ironto and Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, with Sunshine Dog, The Interloper, & A Water Panther Speaks recorded earlier at Joe Dejarnette’s Studio 808a, Topeca Community, Floyd County, Virginia, USA

Mixed and Mastered by Joe Dejarnette

Winchester’s Dream, Mount-Calvary Peacock, Brand New Shirt, Jubal, A Water Panther Speaks, Sunshine Dog, and Weeping Cherry Cry by Matt Peyton

The Interloper, Flowerthrower, Mist Came Down the Pedlar Hills by Mike Gangloff

Waiting on the Band by Peyton, Gangloff

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