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The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain

Posted Sat Sep 29, 17:20 by El Comandante

Glory Hope Mountain is out on September 25. This ambitious album is an homage to lead singer Rolf Klausener’s mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya. Based on interviews recorded in 2006 and recorded over 9 months, the sometimes haunting, sometimes exuberant tones of Glory Hope Mountain follow both hope and tragedy in Montoya’s native Honduras – a mother dying in childbirth, flash floods, an abusive father – and an ultimately life-affirming move to Montreal in the 1970s.

An intensely personal and heartfelt record, Glory Hope Mountain is part historical narrative and part surreal fairy tale. It follows The Acorn’s acclaimed 2004 full-length The Pink Ghosts and stellar Tin Fist EP, and was recorded in a rented house in Ottawa by recording engineer Jarrett Bartlett (of Little Bullhorn Prods). Featured on the album are members of Ohbijou, The Wooden Stars, Flecton Big Sky, Fiftymen, and many others.

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