Format Details: Lp
Release Date: 17 September 2021
Label: Kirby Brown Music / Soundly Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 689176893489
Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter
Release Date: 14 January 2022
Label: Kirby Brown Music / Soundly Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 689176893496
Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter
Description
There’s an element of emotional abstraction and also something very intimate simultaneously on ‘Break into Blossom’. The stories find characters experiencing (and trying to make sense of) certain circumstances, but there’s at the same time a kind of distance from those experiences — a kind of cognitive reckoning that eventually gives way to understanding and actually feeling them.
Like picking up a tiny stone from the bottom of a riverbed. Turning it over in your hand. Holding it up to the sun. Inspecting it from every angle. But instead of a rock, it’s memories, dreams, relationships, losses, desires, anxieties, triumphs.
I took the title of the record from a poem called “A Blessing� by James Wright (1927-1980).
In the poem, the narrator is experiencing a moment of sublime beauty that’s also colored with a tinge of loss and of loneliness. The poem ends with, “Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.�
When you’re wading in the river, it may be gold… or it may just be a plain old rock. And that’s okay. Sometimes the loss itself creates a space for something profoundly beautiful.
So you keep going out and digging around, nonetheless. That’s the important thing.
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Sonically, the production and musical choices were meant to reflect that dichotomy: cinematic backdrops to the organic and quotidien, the dark and the light coexisting in the same space. The longing cry of a pedal steel juxtaposed with the lift of a triumphant synth, the tenderness of a softly finger-picked acoustic underscored by the low, sinister growl of an electric baritone guitar, etc.
Description
There’s an element of emotional abstraction and also something very intimate simultaneously on ‘Break into Blossom’. The stories find characters experiencing (and trying to make sense of) certain circumstances, but there’s at the same time a kind of distance from those experiences — a kind of cognitive reckoning that eventually gives way to understanding and actually feeling them.
Like picking up a tiny stone from the bottom of a riverbed. Turning it over in your hand. Holding it up to the sun. Inspecting it from every angle. But instead of a rock, it’s memories, dreams, relationships, losses, desires, anxieties, triumphs.
I took the title of the record from a poem called “A Blessing� by James Wright (1927-1980).
In the poem, the narrator is experiencing a moment of sublime beauty that’s also colored with a tinge of loss and of loneliness. The poem ends with, “Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.�
When you’re wading in the river, it may be gold… or it may just be a plain old rock. And that’s okay. Sometimes the loss itself creates a space for something profoundly beautiful.
So you keep going out and digging around, nonetheless. That’s the important thing.
--
Sonically, the production and musical choices were meant to reflect that dichotomy: cinematic backdrops to the organic and quotidien, the dark and the light coexisting in the same space. The longing cry of a pedal steel juxtaposed with the lift of a triumphant synth, the tenderness of a softly finger-picked acoustic underscored by the low, sinister growl of an electric baritone guitar, etc.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Will Hoge
Della Mae
Darrell Scott
Jesse Daniel
Noah Gundersen
Joshua Ray Walker
Suzanne Santo
Will Hoge
Tom Speight
Martin Sexton
Non Canon
