For mellow sundburned skin

Old Wave: a Boston quintet of familiar friends noted for their many layered collaborations. Whether improvising over an Art for Friends Sake film project, participating in a Music as a Second Language workshop or a Gazz Jenre performance, or playing at a speakeasy undercover as the Dewdroppers, members of Old Wave have been cross-pollinating for years. 

Despite all that experience, the band’s sophomore album “BOAT” feels more like a seasoned debut. Several seasons have passed since their first EP, “Just Like Catching Light in a Jar.” Along with the passage of time, the addition of Regina Peterson on flute definitively changed the band’s dynamic and sound. 

After ages of playing shows in basements and parks, at festivals and bars, art galleries and thrift shops, farmers markets, fundraisers, porches, and just about anywhere that you could hear live music, the band finally has a recording to share that captures their live sound. 

Old Wave is ecstatic to share this most recent collection of songs.

This record of songs is yours. Singers sing songs so others can hear them. Before that can happen again, here’s a document of the time between when we used to go to shows and when we will go to shows again.

Appearing again with Old Wave are old friends Wes Buckley on mandolin and Jonah Rapino on violin.  


Old Wave

BOAT

Bird Song
After Midnight (Again)
Space Mine
Flood and Shine
The Traitor and the Captive*
Tributary
Everybody Counts
Tunnel
Dignity Augusta
Living in that Fog
Modern Love and Remembrance
If Tempered

Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Pancho Kidd

Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals
Scott Mizrachi

Electric Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, Backing Vocals, Organ, Cello
Ian Kovac

Flute, Backing Vocals
Regina Peterson

Drums
Neil Horsky

Violins on “Tunnel” and “If Tempered”
Jonah Rapino

Mandolin on “The Traitor and the Captive” and “Modern Love and Remembrance”
Wes Buckley

All lyrics by Pancho Kidd

*Based on the short story “The Warrior and the Captive” by Jorge Luis Borges 

Audio Engineering 
Daniel Abugattas, Vallejo Records

Mixing
Daniel Abugattas and Scott Mizrachi

Mastering
Eli Winograd

Consulting
PJ Goodwin

Recorded in 2019 at the Big Orange Attic, Jamaica Plain, MA

Album Art
Andrew Leonard