New York/Portland instrumental duo, INSECT ARK have premiered Sea Harps - a track taken from their upcoming album, Marrow Hymns. With the album set for release on Profound Lore Records on February 23rd, the curious pair seamlessly fuse elements of horror-film soundtracks, psychedelic doom, and atmospheric noise into something otherworldly.

INSECT ARK's Dana Schechter comments, “Sea Harps, a favorite in our live sets, is loosely based on the Greek myth of the Sirens. Broadcasting an ominous and lonely call into the night, the Sirens’ song was irresistible to all who heard it, luring sailors to an untimely and violent death.”

INSECT ARK already released the track In The Nest, click here to listen. Marrow Hymns will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats with reorders to be unveiled soon. Plans are underway for the band to tour Europe this spring; more details will be unveiled soon.

Marrow Hymns is INSECT ARK's first release written and recorded as a duo; it is the follow up to 2015's critically acclaimed album, Portal/Well. INSECT ARKs intensely visual music weaves interludes of fragile beauty with crushing passages of swirling doom, wordlessly painting an ominous landscape.

Residing on opposite coasts, the two halves of the INSECT ARK whole - comprised of Schechter (bass, lap steel guitar, synthesizers) and Ashley Spungin (drums, synthesisers) - converged to record the album with engineer Ethan Donaldson at Mozart St Studios in Brooklyn, NY, over the course of eighteen months.

Overdubs and further writing/arrangements were done after Spungin’s return to Portland in the isolation of Schechter’s home studio. The sense of distance and vast emptiness remained intact in the songs, built out over many long nights. Marrow Hymns’ song themes of displacement, loss, and isolation are personal journals of that time period, as both members found themselves simultaneously experiencing existential crises. However, the album also tells a story of strength and determination, made from the marrow of these two women, a song for all things that struggle to survive

About INSECT ARK:
Creating a soundtrack to the human psyche’s underbelly, INSECT ARK's psychedelic doom weaves a brooding, textural landscape, a starless night spiked with light and ash. The duo braids together delay-drenched lapsteel, drums, distorted bass & synths to create a sonic mural, both uncomfortably intimate and icy cold. For fans of: Earth, Tangerine Dream, Oranssi Pazuzu, Swans.

Formed in late 2011, INSECT ARK began in NYC as the one-woman solo project of bassist/multi-instrumentalist/composer and video artist Dana Schechter (related projects: M. Gira’s Angels of Light, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Zeal & Ardor, Gnaw). Portland-based drummer and analog electronics builder Ashley Spungin (related projects: Taurus/Purple Rhinestone Eagle/Negative Queen ) joined in 2015 during the touring for Portal/Well. Both women have roots firmly in making work with no borders – they are DIY makers, multi-instrumentalists, gearheads, and visual artists.

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