Scott Righteous is Bitter Harvest, and "dark world music" is his bumper crop. Technology makes this one-man band sound like an army of undead: Righteous plays dumbek and other "exotic" percussion instruments and manipulates them live through samplers and loops, to create a sound that bridges worlds old and new. But don't be misled into thinking this is some cuddly, Putomayo-ass shit that you’d hear over the speakers at Starbucks.... this is a man who once was a member of Canada’s notorious noise collective Phycus, as has also collaborated with Monty Cantsin (father of Neoism), and new wave dadaist Dave Howard (in Devoured).
Bitter Harvest's 1998 CD Ritual Music for Broken Magick (on Scott’s own Gaijin Records) is fearsome, and its recently completed follow-up should up the ante. WEB HARVEST.