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The trumpeter and composer Samantha Boshnack isn’t a geologist by trade, but she certainly thinks a lot about earthquakes and volcanoes. Over the past 15 years, while living in her adopted hometown of Seattle, Boshnack has hiked the environs of Washington’s Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens with a kind of unnerved fascination. During her travels in places like Mexico and Indonesia, she’s made a point to visit the storied volcanic sites. Throughout her journeys, a couple of questions have persisted: What causes these astounding landscapes and events, and how are they all connected? And how can these vistas be so unspeakably beautiful yet also harbor such a profound potential for catastrophe? 

Boshnack’s inquiries led her to an exhaustive study of the Ring of Fire, the horseshoe-shaped region surrounding the Pacific that contains the majority of the world’s volcanoes and experiences about 90 percent of its earthquakes. Her answers, from the purely emotional to the surprisingly scientific, can be found on Live in Santa Monica, the new Orenda Records release by Samantha Boshnack’s Seismic Belt. With Boshnack on trumpet and flugelhorn, Ryan...  more
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released March 15, 2019 

Samantha Boshnack – Trumpet; Compositions 
Ryan Parrish – Tenor and Baritone Saxophones 
Paris Hurley – Violin 
Lauren Elizabeth Baba – Viola 
Paul Cornish – Piano 
Nashir Janmohamed – Double Bass 
Dan Schnelle – Drums 

Commissioned and premiered at 18th Street Arts Center, California 

Recorded at Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, Roth Hall, Santa Monica, CA, on April 13, 2018 

Daniel Jimenez Afanador - Recording Engineer, Live Engineer 
Harry Rabin - Assistant Engineer 
Jacob Walker - Assistant Engineer 
Mixed by Evan Schiller at zulusound, Seattle, WA 
Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, Seattle, WA 

Cover Image: The sun illuminates ash from the Calbuco volcano in Chile on April 22, 2015, © Alex Vidal Brecas 

Album design by Anne Mathews 

Special thanks to Stella Rossi, Mark Boshnack, Daniel Rosenboom, Chris Credit, the Herb Alpert Foundation, the fabulous folks at 18th Street Arts Center, and the incredible musicians who leapt into the fire with me. 

All music composed by Samantha Boshnack 
© Shnack Music, ASCAP 

www.boshnackmusic.com 

ORENDA RECORDS 0059 
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Subduction Zone

Samantha Boshnack