Around And Around

"Creektime" is a gamble: an audio adventure that introduces many of the sonic themes off my newest record 222, which will be released later this spring. “Creektime" interweaves traditional string instruments with found sounds and programmed samples to create a truly unique auditory story. Constructed around a country porch banjo lick, punctuated with actual gun shot field recordings, and elaborated with percussive surprises, the song’s atmosphere evokes the hauntingly ethereal mood of the entire project.

All music, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Odetta Hartman.
Produced, recorded and mixed by Jack Inslee.
Mastered by Joe Lambert.

CREEKTIME

2011 | Created for a dance/theater production that was commissioned for a regional UNESCO conference on Prisons and Peace.

Color, Timbre, Tempo

Background, context, and transcribed text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Recording by Pacifica Radio Archives.

CONTEXT / TEXT

James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

Debbie Millman talks to composer Nico Muhly about his music and about the musicians who interpret it.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Nico Muhly


recorded and mixed by Dexter Wolfe (at the power, kingdom and the glory are yours studios) 

Elsewhere

I Fare My Body

Official audio of Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s “Fruitflies” from his new LP, Jardín ( Stones Throw Records).

Download Jardin: 
Digital: http://smarturl.it/GGM_Jardin
Vinyl: http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/gabrielgarzonmontano+/jardin

Lyrics
A million pairs of feet getting weak
Were all so tired of walking but we can't find the way back home
Like fruit flies in the breeze ill at ease
We try so hard to fight but we can't change the way the wind blows

Can't find a way back home 
Can't change the way the wind blows
No we can't find a way back home

And while we try to sleep - forgotten dreams…
They beg of us to count them so we back and forth with the sheep
Our cloudy coats they gleam - How we bleat
Afraid to up and wonder let the wolf get you while your alone




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Jardín

Fruitflies

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/03/23/regina-spekgor-the-everyday-enchantment-of-music-mark-strand/

Recorded at "Poetry & the Creative Mind," hosted by The Academy of American Poets at Lincoln Center: https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/programs/poetry-creative-mind

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Regina Spektor reads "The Everyday Enchantment of Music" by Mark Strand

changing the words to your song

I'm No Prisoner of Time

Born and raised in rural Massachusetts and currently living in Brooklyn, NY⁠, Eliza Edens weaves together disparate influences of people and place into her work to create mesmerizing sonic tapestries with guitar and voice. With a love for tinkering with alternate tunings à la Nick Drake, a curious harmonic ear from years of childhood classical piano lessons, and an ever-expanding affinity for words and stories, Edens’ songs build a kaleidoscopic world that documents the parallels between hope and heartbreak. The resulting sound is a diverse palette of guitar-based, experimental folk-rock centered around Edens gently cradled voice and brimming at the edges with pockets of sonic whimsy. Edens' sophomore album 'We'll Become the Flowers' arrived on October 14th.