Artist : Chris Weisman & Greg Davis
Title : Northern Songs
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2010
Date : 05/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 09
Label : Home Normal
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 43:41 min
Size : 56,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.New Americans 04:30
02.Christalline 05:26
03.Hat Of Night 03:05
04.Reading Road 02:43
05.It's All Too Much 07:07
06.We Won't Survive 05:40
07.The Nine Times 07:21
08.Steaming Bowl 01:39
09.Crystal Under Brattleboro 06:10
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43:41 min
Recorded between November 2008 - March
2009 in Brattleboro & Burlington, VT.
Originally released as a tour only CDr
in May 2009 (Autumn Records ar006).
Limited to 1000 copies.
Northern Songs is the blissful sound of
Chris Weisman leaving his body and
dissolving into the universe; he sounds
very free. Greg Davis (electronic music
composer, fractal maker) helps the
usually obsessive Chris (psychedelic
four-tracker, music artist) surrender to
the void. The falling away of self is
quite literal: Chris recorded a batch of
songs, then turned the tapes over to
Greg without instructions for completion
(thereÆs a special luxurious bath you
get to take when you stop deciding).
Rather than perfecting the material,
GregÆs treatments make it radically and
beautifully incomplete; the pop song is
unmastered, its closed forms opened to
nature (this music has no inside and no
outside (this guitar solo sounds
friendly and tall (these computer sounds
are showing me the thing in the tree
that makes it alive
You mightÆve heard/thereÆs a crystal
under Brattleboro. Yet Chris and Greg
also know that radioactive tritium is
leaking from the 40 underground pipes
beneath the Vermont Yankee nuclear power
plant. In this sense, their music is
post-psychedelic: it is Vermont music of
peace and patience, but it is not make-
believe (the world is scary and
darkening; it is also the home of love).
We may dwell deeply in moments of
imagination (and they are breathtaking)
but the lesson is to listen beyond the
rainbow space of the headphones (the
world is forever changing (music in the
expanded field (life is dispersed among
the many things (2012 never knows
(something gentle may happen
Carl Davulis
all songs written and played by chris
weisman & greg davis
except æitÆs all too muchÆ which was
written by george harrison
ruth garbus plays clarinet on æwe wonÆt
surviveÆ
recorded between november 2008 - march
2009 in brattleboro & burlington VT
drawings by ryan storm
www.myspace.com/cwgd
www.autumnrecords.net
www.chrisweisman.com
http://www.homenormal.com