The experimental project Salt On Sunday explores boundaries betwixt reality and folklore, connections to one’s ancestors through memories and traditions, and blurs the lines between genre realms. Combining elements of doom, fuzz, grunge, and post-metal to produce a more unconventional sound, A Docket of Votive Offerings will be unveiled on the 28th of August, 2024. The first track ‘janara’, titled after the term for the witches of the region of Campania, is available to stream.

Project mastermind Adam R. Bryant explains the concept behind A Docket of Votive Offerings: “[a] ‘votive offering’ is something you give up for something else, with no intention of getting it back, despite the effort it may have taken to acquire it. More often, the offering feels like an obligation, with an anxiousness about whether or not you’ll be able to appease whatever you are giving it to.”

Listen to ‘janara’ here: https://youtu.be/9mhH5zGMzUs?feature=shared

Pre-order A Docket of Votive Offerings here: https://saltonsunday.bandcamp.com/album/a-docket-of-votive-offerings

About:
Salt On Sunday is musically inspired by the likes of Lungfish, Fugazi, Slint, and Nirvana, drawing from personal nostalgia for the ’90s. Adam’s ancestry is the key focus of this record. Bringing to life memories and family traditions, and exploring the folklore of his grandmother’s home in Benevento. A Docket of Votive Offerings also delves into the complicated feelings of home and belonging. Existing in a liminal position of being a part of multiple cultures and but not quite fully belonging in any one. 

Salt On Sunday is one of many projects Adam has a hand in. He began with an experimental ambient metal project Pando with Matt Gagne, that released through the UK based Aesthetic Death Label. Adam subsequently released a few nature themed albums under the Cave Dweller moniker, with a new album set to release at the end of this year via Aesthetic Death. Additionally Adam produces meditative drone metal under the name Unfold, also with an album under Aesthetic Death expected sometime this summer.

Salt On Sunday is: 
Adam R. Bryant

A Docket of Votive Offerings Track List:
1. janara – 3:28
2. ancestor veneration – 6:45
3. Everything is numb and i can no longer tell the difference between time – 5:22
4. transportable architecture – 4:36
5. sotto il nocce di benevento – 3:28
6. ti voglio bene – 3:55
7. ai will write my obituary – 5:57
8. appropriate violence – 9:24 

Credits:
Written, performed and produced by Adam R. Bryant.

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