Mt. Onsra have released their epicly expansive second album ‘Sacred Time’ today via their own South of Devon Records. Simon Allen and Russell Cleave discuss their winding musical and friendship journey on this newly released mini doc. The pair first met back in 1995. They formed a band. They moved to London. They split up and went their separate ways. For the next 20 years, the duo would stay in sporadic contact but without a music-making connection. The global pandemic hit and the pair decided to write a song together, remotely. That 1 song turned into 10, which in turn became Mt. Onsra’s debut album ‘Written in Silence’.
Second album ‘Sacred Time’ includes previously released tracks ‘Universal’, with its meditative heartbeat feel, expansive opener ‘Emergent’ which rumbles, at first quietly but ultimately weightily out of the gates and was spun by Daniel P. Carter on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, and ‘Fever Dream’, which earned a coveted spot on the weekly Kerrang! Chart.
Both talented multi-instrumentalists with a wealth of experience, at the core of this project is a love story of two friends floating in and out of each others’ lives. Mt. Onsra’s music is an emotional release, the sound of searching; for meaning, for connection and understanding, with ‘Sacred Time’ delving even further into these soul-searching avenues. Raw and intimate, orchestrated and loud, there was never any plan, there was no strategy. The process in the studio was equally organic to the way their first album came together remotely and Allen even felt the need to sojourn back to his own home setup when it came to recording vocals, in order to keep them raw and intimate.
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