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Floods

by Adam H.

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Riff-Hewn Altar A wild cast of brilliant musicians came together to record this album, and they made something stunning. The quiet parts are mesmerizing. The loud parts are terrifying. Track two, The Flood of 2064, fully embodies the mourning, rage, and relief that would follow the end of the world. I love this album.
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“Adam H’s Floods takes as its starting point disasters of the recent past and a seemingly inevitable future; he has assembled a crack ensemble to help him realize an arresting vision of upsurges, of dense musical accumulations echoing the dread of waters rising.”
— David Grubbs

Adam H. returns to Debacle for a full-length ensemble record about the devastating impact of twin floods on the town of Louisville, KY-- one coming from a rageful Ohio River, and the other from the Sackler family's profit-driven opioid crisis. Recorded in nearly a single take and completed remotely between France and Queens during the first wave of COVID-19, an incredible group of folks gathered together to execute this record. The ensemble features Kid Millions (Oneida), Jim Sauter (Borbetomagus), Tim Dahl (Child Abuse, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus), Sarah Bernstein (duo w/Kid Millions, Veer Quartet), and Mark McAdam (an accomplished songwriter and composer). The album was recorded and mixed by Colin Marsten and mastered by Bob Bellerue.


Adam on Floods:

“The album itself is divided into two long pieces. The first, “The Flood of 1997”, is a snapshot of a city in crisis. In 1997, two major disasters occurred in Louisville, KY: the largest flood in sixty years and the arrival of OxyContin. Both would devastate the city, with the latter taking lives and ruining families up to the present day. Based on an acoustic loop of a gothic Southern waltz, it moves from ominous psych to a complete free meltdown to a weary drifting melody. The piece ends with a series of portraits of people swept up in opiates and stands as a tribute to them as well as a condemnation of the sociocultural structures that led them to such tragic ends


While “The Flood of 1997” immerses itself in the ruin of a specific time and place, “The Flood of 2064” emerges as a more universal space of ominous contemplation about our collective (un)future. As recent events in Kentucky have shown, these catastrophes will keep coming; and by the year 2064, who knows what will be left to flood."

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released October 7, 2022

Adam H:
Kid Millions: Drums
Jim Sauter: Saxophone
Tim Dahl: Bass Guitar, Double Bass
Sarah Bernstein: Violin
Mark McAdam: Synthesiser
Music Composed Collaboratively
Lyrics by Hocker

Recorded and mixed by Colin Marston


Mastered by Bob Bellerue

Artwork by James J. Williams III

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Adam H. Berlin, Germany

Adam H. is a musician, composer, and translator based in Berlin.

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