American folk musician Seth Mountain goes ‘Over the Mountains’ in latest EP

Seth Martin, better known in Seoul’s music scene as folk singer Seth Mountain, has released a five-song mini-album titled “Over the Mountains.” This is the latest installment in his push to complete what he calls the “Mountain Trilogy.” This follows “This Mountain” (2016), which focused mostly on U.S. politics and social struggles, and “Through Dark Valleys” (2021), which turned inward and tuned into Korea. There are some new additions to some of the songs, but these five newly released recordings trace their origins way back to 2016, when Mountain was working on the first album in Portland, Oregon. After 10 years, he plans to complete the “Mountain Trilogy” with one more full-length album, on which he plans to include these five songs. He pictures that one being “less topical and more personal, philosophical, spiritual… but still acting as a sort of summit for the trio and making it all one mountain, so to speak.” He added, “As for this EP, I want it to stand on its own as a project. But the songs used here will also feature on the third full-length mountain album, but mixed different

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