This Timeless Turning
{{Infobox album
| name = This Timeless Turning
| type = studio
| artist = Sky Cries Mary
| cover = Sky Cries Mary - This Timeless Turning.jpg
| alt =
| released = July 26, 1994
| recorded = February 1994
| venue =
| studio = Robert Lang (Shoreline, Washington)
| genre = Psychedelic rock, space rock, trance
| length = 68:37
| label = World Domination
| producer = Ian Caple{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&dq=This+Timeless+Turning+sky+cries+mary+1994&pg=PA748|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=January 12, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}
| prev_title = A Return to the Inner Experience
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves
| next_year = 1997
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |first=Dave |last=Thompson |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r206930|pure_url=yes}}|title=This Timeless Turning |website=Allmusic |accessdate=March 30, 2013}}
|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |page=512}}
|rev3 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
|rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=1029}}
}}
This Timeless Turning is an album by Sky Cries Mary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-15-ca-3249-story.html|title=The Forecast: Yesterday and Today : Pop music: Roderick Romero's band, Sky Cries Mary, harks back to space rock and looks ahead with computer technology.|date=November 15, 1995|website=Los Angeles Times}} It was released in 1994 through World Domination Recordings.{{cite magazine |first=Grant |last=Alden |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=sky_cries_mary |title=Sky Cries Mary |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=March 30, 2013}}
Release
To promote the album, Sky Cries Mary broadcast a complete concert live on the internet, the first band to ever do so.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wg4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=This+Timeless+Turning+sky+cries+mary+1994&pg=RA1-PA80|title=Sky Cries Mary Updates History|work=Billboard|date=November 4, 1995|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}
Critical reception
AllMusic called This Timeless Turning the band's masterpiece.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sky-cries-mary-mn0000020445/biography|title=Sky Cries Mary | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}
Track listing
{{tracklist
| all_writing = Sky Cries Mary except "Shipwrecked" and "Deep Sunless Sea" by Sky Cries Mary and Joe Skyward
| title1 = Shipwrecked
| length1 = 4:05
| title2 = Vuh
| length2 = 4:19
| title3 = Don't Forget the Sky
| length3 = 5:25
| title4 = These Old Bones
| length4 = 4:03
| title5 = Stretched
| length5 = 3:44
| title6 = Every Iceburg Is Afire
| length6 = 3:47
| title7 = Scapegoat
| length7 = 4:07
| title8 = Sister Ship Twenty Three
| length8 = 1:03
| title9 = Deep Sunless Sea
| length9 = 6:50
| title10 = Slow Down Time
| length10 = 5:51
| title11 = Objects in the Mirror
| length11 = 5:14
| title12 = 4:00 A.M.
| length12 = 14:48
| title13 = Walk of Nothingness
| length13 = 5:21
}}
Personnel
;Sky Cries Mary
- Michael Cozzi – guitar
- Juano Davison – bass guitar
- Ben Ireland – drums, percussion
- Gordon Raphael – guitar, synthesizer, sampler, organ
- Todd Robbins – sampler, turntables, vocoder, synthesizer, drum machine
- Anisa Romero – vocals, harmonium, painting
- Roderick Wolgamott Romero – vocals, synthesizer
;Production and additional personnel
- Tom Baker – mastering
- Robin Boomer – cello
- Ian Caple – production, engineering, mixing
- Ophelia Chong – art direction
- Larry Halpern – soprano saxophone, flute
- Serge – didgeridoo
- Sky Cries Mary – production
- Dee Young – cover art
References
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External links
- {{Discogs master |master=23208 |name=This Timeless Turning}}
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