Artist: Duke Garwood
Title: The Sand That Falls
Label: Fire
Genre: Avantgarde
Bitrate: 160kbit av.
Time: 00:37:32
Size: 45.98 mb
Rip Date: 2009-04-24
Str Date: 2009-06-15
01. May I Rumble 2:28
02. Mellow Trucker Lady 3:04
03. I Bared My Chest 5:10
04. Reap The Many Fruits 5:28
05. The Horror 2:01
06. Ho Diddi 3:03
07. Deep In The Outside 2:32
08. We Make The Leap 2:33
09. Confidence Makes Love 4:48
10. The Sand That Falls 6:25
Release Notes:
Duke Garwood has always been a wanderer. His early musical life was
spent learning his chops in the then seedy beach bars of My Lai,
Thailand. Returning to the UK in the '90s Garwood played around and
about in squat parties and blues clubs, before releasing his first
album, Holy Week in 2005. This was followed by Emerald Palace in 2007,
an album recorded in a lonely hut up on the North Downs . You might
also have encountered Garwood adding screeds of brass to Archie Bronson
Outfit's live shows, or playing in The Woodsmen - all part of the
nomadic wanderings of a musician and artist who's perfectly content to
exist and create on his own terms.
Now Garwood returns with his first album for Fire records. Recorded in
a vast, deserted house that was as much building site as abode, it's
soon apparent that The Sand That Falls is aptly named. For as Garwood
picks his blues and murmurs his songs, time vanishes as he transports
you to a world soundtracked by sparse plucking, gentle percussion and
his deep, thoughtful vocal. Though steeped in the blues and deeply
influenced by his hero Thelonious Monk, Garwood never becomes
distracted into reverential homage. There's a fractured, lo-fi feel to
what he does, an unconcern with rigid adherence to tradition. In the
scattered sounds and meditative feel, the space in which The Sand That
Falls was recorded almost becomes audible in the music.
On final, title track, made up of hums and the anxious, repeated
banging of a drum, Garwood intones ⌠leave no trace... leave no
trace...÷ So Duke Garwood leaves us, yet again wandering forth in
search of musical pastures new.