Cold granules of rain spat horizontally at Magnuson Park on the Sunday I met Wind Burial. We were there searching for the Sound Garden. That place where supernatural tones supposedly hum through a series of hanging metal tubes. As we walked, I heard Wind Burial’s “Kissing the Curves of the Earth” in my head. The shifting domes of cumulonimbus clouds over Lake Washington matched the song perfectly. The Seattle-based band consists of vocalist/Moog player Kat Terran, Derek Terran on drums and keys, guitarist Alan Gutierrez, and Justin McCormick on bass and guitar. Their latest album, We Used to Be Hunters, was recorded in an Anacortes church called the Unknown. (Sails were once made there as well, pieced together on the open sanctuary floor.)
Wind Burial’s sound is alchemical, an aerial, Wiccan psych-rock. Kat Terran’s voice soars. “Kissing the Curves” drives hard, hoisting portals from a mast…
