Living in this extended quarantine, words began to get in the way. And then I asked myself, don’t all of these lonely people just want to hear something that hits them right in their heart? What if I made an album that sounds like your neighbor playing guitar and you find yourself eavesdropping? 

Thanks for listening - Marco

credits:
Marco North: 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitars, dobro, banjola, cigar box guitar, saxophone, harmonica, cloud chamber bowls, tack piano, music box, calliope, harmonium, clavinet, mellotron, didgeridoo, accordion, celeste, Wurlitzer, hurdy gurdy, drums, and various Stradivarius string samples. 

All songs written and arranged by Marco North 
Produced, mixed and engineered by Marco North 
Mastered by Hans DeKline 
©+℗ 2022 Bittersweet Hum Music (BMI) 

Design/images by Bittersweet Group 

Recorded in our living room in Moscow, Russia. 

THANKS TO: 

Nataliya Usherzon, Eve North, Vera North, Hans DeKline, Eric B. and Chris W. from The Mixorcist, Irakli, Therese, Jon, JM, Evie, Jamie, Daniel, David, Mark, Greg, Marlon, Polly, Ryan and George.

Jacob and the Angel

JACOB and the ANGEL (final mixes)

A Man Escaped

In the Field

King of None

Rare Air

I Wish I Was Back Home

Undertow

JACOB and the ANGEL (final mixes 2)

One Thousand Steps

Marco North: 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitars, dobro, banjola, cigar box guitar, saxophone, harmonica, cloud chamber bowls, tack piano, music box, calliope, harmonium, clavinet, mellotron, didgeridoo, accordion, celeste, Wurlitzer, hurdy gurdy, drums, and various Stradivarius string samples. 

All songs written and arranged by Marco North 
Produced, mixed and engineered by Marco North 
Mastered by Hans DeKline 
©+℗ 2022 Bittersweet Hum Music (BMI) 

Design/images by Bittersweet Group 

Recorded in our living room in Moscow, Russia. 

THANKS TO: 

Nataliya Usherzon, Eve North, Vera North, Hans DeKline, Eric B. and Chris W. from The Mixorcist, Irakli, Therese, Jon, JM, Evie, Jamie, Daniel, David, Mark, Greg, Marlon, Ryan and George.

JACOB and the ANGEL

Sisyphus

Windowsill

Martin Ruby is a Roots/Americana band led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Marco North. Born in Brooklyn, he has been living in Moscow, Russia for the past 13 years.
Laying his demons bare, North pulls on characters like a series of strange coats. Paring back the extraneous, coaxing out the wry details, always seeking that conversational tone, his songs are a wandering collection of midnight confessions.
His first album, Heaven Get Behind Me was written on a 100-year-old parlor guitar, and recorded in a Soviet-era living room on a collection of vintage instruments, including a 1887 Pollman banjola. North’s unique songwriting is steeped in not only the melancholy grace of Nick Drake and Mark Linkous, but also the foggy noir of Johnny Cash’s American albums, and the somber meditativeness of Nick Cave’s most recent recorded output.