Back around 1999/2000, I live in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was fantastic, but one of the things I’ve never talked about was the massive used record shop that city held. I’m not sure why, but tons (literally, huge shipping containers) of CDs and other music stuff would show up at that place every few weeks. I spent a considerable amount of time sitting in a window on the fourth floor of their building looking out over Lake Geneva listening to CDs I would never had known existed if I hadn’t just dug through the bins for hours.

There was a considerable amount of garbage that I came across, but one CD and one song in particular has stuck with me in the years hence. “Me Climb Mountain” by Harvester is the album discovery I made one summer day in that window. The band has seemingly been lost to time. The only remains online being a few used copies of the CD in a few shops and maybe a wisp of a record review here and there. You can buy it used from Amazon for as little as a penny.

But I want to share a particular song that got me through some dark times in that wonderful city. The slow build of “It’s Been a Long Day” propels what appears to be a dark story but what feels like rage and bewilderment that finally finds release. Enjoy.