Myths and Hymns, by Garrett Gleason

Myths and Hymns

by Garrett Gleason

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	1.	Children of the Heavenly King 01:36
	2.	Saturn Returns 03:23
	3.	Icarus 05:16
	4.	At the Sounding 01:51
	5.	Migratory V 03:59
	6.	Pegasus 03:35
	7.	Build a Bridge 03:53
	8.	Link 01:44
	9.	Hero and Leander 04:33
	10.	Sisyphus 04:14
	11.	How Can I Lose You? 05:11
	12.	Awaiting You 03:55
	13.	Come to Jesus 06:43
	14.	The Great Highway 02:46
	15.	There's a Land 03:21
	16.	Saturn Returns (Reprise) 03:16

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A reinterpretation of Adam Guettel's musical of the same title.

Garrett Gleason - guitars, effects, arrangements
Artie Sadtler - bass
Olaolu Ajibade - drums

Recorded at Bass Clef Studio in Bowie, MD by Vincent Othielo.
Mixed by Sean Gotkin and Finn George.
Mastered by Sean Gotkin.
Released on December 8, 2023 by Big Round Records.

Executive producer: Sean Gotkin.

Copyright 2023 Big Round Records. All rights reserved.

"Adam Guettel’s theater cult-classic MYTHS AND HYMNS is no stranger to genre-bending and reimagination, the original song cycle itself leaning heavily on the concepts. So it comes as no surprise that renowned guitarist Garrett Gleason, never shying away from the new or imaginative, would produce his own reworkings of the beloved songs for guitar, bass, and drums.

There’s no shortage of fresh takes in these often experimental arrangements sifting between the lines of rock and theater. Gleason’s re-workings add a vivacious flair to works like Pegasus and Sisyphus, the various guitar effects an inventive means of exciting the original content without failing to honor it entirely. Even the subdued slow-rock of How Can I Lose You finds itself ever so gradually slipping into admirable madness sure to please even the most experimental of music listeners.

Gleason’s new take on MYTHS AND HYMNS is a welcome revival and renewal. Not only is it sure to meet approval by fans of the original, but it’s been approved by Guettel himself, the two eventually coming together in person to completely reimagine the closing song, Saturn Returns (Reprise). Gleason hopes for his arrangements of MYTHS AND HYMNS to bring the worlds of theater and rock together, that perhaps, like myths and hymns, there is more in common between the two than one would think."
- Big Round Records, 2023

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released December 8, 2023

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