Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter: Saved!

SAVED! Is an apocalyptic revelation on the complex, sometimes ugly, always nonlinear process of healing. Herein, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter documents an earnest attempt to achieve salvation through the tenets of charismatic Christianity, focusing on the Pentecostal-Holiness Movement, which dictate that one's closeness to God is demonstrated through transcendental personal experience. Sonically and thematically, the record is both a logical conclusion to and a significant departure from Hayter's previous work as Lingua Ignota; while she continues to use historical avant-garde technique and formal constraints superimposed over accessible frameworks, she also strips down her instrumentation and degrades audio to provide a sense of musicological antiquity. Similar to Lingua Ignota, the record is steeped in pathos, but now the wrath of God gives way to His deliverance: "His boundless love shall make you whole." To evoke the lonely roads of salvation-seeking, SAVED! Is stark, confined mostly to vocals (sometimes overdubbed into a dissonant chorus of twelve simultaneous voices) and piano prepared with bells and chains, the earthly and celestial. Speaking in tongues is achieved by self-imposing a variety of conditions; sleep deprivation, fasting, repetition of prayer, and overstimulation to sound. Working with long-time collaborator Seth Manchester to achieve a sound that is without era or place, high-fidelity recordings of each song were committed to a 4-track recorder, and then further degraded in a series of small half-broken cassette players. Tape manipulation techniques provide additional effects of deteriorating texture. The result is an artifact that sounds lost to decay, forgotten, as though never meant to be heard. This is all in service of the message - that in it's quest for salvation and healing SAVED! Is a renunciation of life. Here solace is found in absolute retreat from the world, far from pain and sin, burning with the holy fire until the end comes. And it is written: as you are when the end comes, so will you be when you must face Him. Whether this is enlightenment or insanity is up to the listener to decide.

1. I’M GETTING OUT WHILE I CAN
2. ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL
3. THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD
4. IDUMEA
5. I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
6. PRECIOUS LORD TAKE MY HAND
7. MAY THIS COMFORT AND PROTECT YOU
8. THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER
9. NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS
10. I KNOW HIS BLOOD CAN MAKE ME WHOLE
11. HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

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