Brian Harnetty is a like modern version of Alan Lomax, though he is not content to just catalog and present ancient American music. Instead he’s chosen to interact with it by creating collages, contemporary compositions and new ways for archival music to breathe again. To do this he gained access to the extensive sound archives of Berea College (Kentucky). These archives collect more than 75 years of Appalachian history in the form of music, field recordings, oral histories and radio programs. He added live instrumentation to the field recordings and pieced various audio discoveries together to form a whole cohesive work that addresses as he states:
“The pieces point toward both the season of winter and to more ambiguous ideas: the winter of politics, war, emotion, history, and finally to its ultimate hope of renewal.”
The great Chicago based experimental label Atavistic Records will release American Winter on October 9. More info here.
Soon We’ll Reach The Starry Sky
I was interested in the story you just told me about the funeral
A lot like the Clothesline Revival albums: http://www.paleomusic.com/
Remix!
dodge thought that might catch your attention lol