Producer: Manabu Endo
Songwriter/Piano/Harmonium/Vocals: Peri Benjamin
Cello: Ruben Rebholz
Slide Guitar: Scott Hildebrand
Harmonies/Vocals: Marla
Ablum Cover: Klara Cmerjkova

PACIFIC ECHO RECORDS 
Released June 26th, 2024

Wind

Till We Get There

In July 2016, Jack Loeffler recorded Gary Snyder reading his updated version of 'Four Changes' in his home. This recorded version was prepared for and included in a major exhibition held at the History Museum of New Mexico at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. 

The exhibition was entitled 'Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest', and Snyder's rendering of 'Four Changes'  aptly conveyed how deeply the counterculture movement helped nurture the emerging environmental movement. The impact of this manifesto is as powerful today as it was a half century ago and could not be more timely.

Sant Feliu De Guixols

"Four Changes" by Gary Snyder

Whimsical yet daring, Peri's deft ability behind the piano lends her somehow mystical songs and improvised compositions a weight reserved usually for the greats of the jazz world. Declaring, "Write anything, and I'll sing it" and plunking the pulse of now. Raised in the far reaches of San Francisco’s wild west, Peri’s music has a strong root in folk rock n roll music. A virtuoso vocal presence and multi-instrumentalism promises a well rounded and harmonically complex concert.
She still believes in the poetic gesture and hopes this will suffice.

Wind

Peri Benjamin

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