ARTIST: Peter and the Wolf
TITLE: Lightness
LABEL: The Worker's Institute
GENRE: Folk
BITRATE: 197kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 36m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-31
RIP DATE: 2006-10-30
Track List
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1. Midnight Train 2:41
2. The Ivy 1:47
3. Safe Travels 2:26
4. My Grey Overcoat 3:08
5. The Highway 3:48
6. The Owl 1:54
7. Anna Maria 1:27
8. The Bonsai Tree 2:21
9. The Apple Tree 1:49
10. Canada 2:01
11. Dear Old Robyn 1:33
12. The Captain 2:15
13. Black Saltwater 2:25
14. Holy Water 2:15
15. Silent Movies 2:02
16. Lightness 2:47
Release Notes:
What kind of music would you want to hear if you and your baby were the last two
people on a post-apocalyptic, godforsaken planet? If you were sitting by the
sea, for example, watching that vast expanse of empty water crash upon the sands
and then recede, knowing that this was all there would ever be. Who would you
want singing from that beat-up tape player you just managed to save from
whatever catastrophe it was that doomed the rest of us? Let me make a
suggestion: Austin-based troubadour Red Hunter.
When it comes right down to it, Peter and the Wolf is Red Hunter, but he
estimates that heÆs had over 100 collaborators over the short lifespan of the
band. On his newest offering, Experiments in Junk, he says, ôIt was all about
playing with different groups of people, musicians and non-musicians, trying to
get different bodies of sound. Because a certain sound has a specific momentum
that even non-musicians can play along to, so youÆll hear a song and thereÆll be
5 or 6 musicians on it and then 5 or 6 non-musicians.ö
Hunter says that he just collects people in each city he plays and then they all
get up and start playing music. I ask how he controls the songs and whether they
ever get away from him in a live setting. ôItÆs important not to have it become
a free-for-all,ö he says. ôThere have been a few times when, well, letÆs just
say crazy drunks get up there and start doing their own thing. I try to keep it
to the people whose music IÆve heard of people who are friends or friends of
friends û some kind of frame of reference makes it work. And it does work. ItÆs
amazing.ö