Beasts in the Garden
16mm/Video, music video, 6.5min, 2015
music & lyrics by Spires That in the Sunset Rise
on the UK’s alt.vinyl
Seeing circles, spraying fertilizer, tickling hair, blowing feathers, playing hide-n-seek.
Earthy and celestial, backyard and deep-space, so low and so up high.
“Beasts in the Garden is the seventh full length record by Midwest visionaries Spires That In The Sunset Rise. Since 2010, STITSR have operated primarily as a duo consisting of long time members Kathleen Baird and Taralie Peterson. After releasing two lush, string based albums Ancient Patience Wills It Again Part 1 and 2 in 2012 and 2013, STITSR have returned with a definitively new direction inspired greatly by two years of exploring improvisation with members of the free jazz/improv community in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison. Inspired to dig out their old high school instruments buried deep in the closet, Beasts in the Garden consists primarily of Taralie Peterson on alto saxophone and Kathleen Baird on flute…”