Page McConnell 'Maybe We're The Visitors' Vinyl

150g audiophile black vinyl in gatefold packaging. Page McConnell's new solo album. The album was written and recorded in Iceland and Burlington, VT.

In January 2020, shortly before the coronavirus shut down modern life, including travel, McConnell took a road trip that had nothing to do with his normal touring itinerary: a holiday in Iceland. Inevitably, music got made there. But it was unlike anything McConnell had recorded before as a solo artist, for side projects or within the collaborative energies of Phish: fully electronic pieces created on location, in response to the epic landscapes, dramatic weather, and geologic fury that he experienced in Iceland. He also came back energized and determined to keep going amid, indeed despite, lockdown.

Maybe Were The Visitors is the result: an imaginary voyage charged with eyewitness awe and intense, solitary reflection; expressed without lyrics, vocals or any sign of piano, organ or clavinet.

The narrative flow of Maybe Were The Visitors exploration, colony and, finally warning; that, as Icelanders already know, we are only stewards here and nature always has the last word did not present itself until I was close to the end, McConnell confesses. But I always knew there was something alien about these piecesSide A
Radio Silence
Moss Suite pt. 1
Terra Incognita
Outpost

Side B
The Settlement
Passage
Visitor
Set In Stone
Maybe We're The Visitors