Alec Goldfarb: Fire Lapping at the Creek

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	1.	High Water All Round (feat. David Leon) 08:15
	2.	And the Red Light was my Mind (feat. David Leon) 03:32
	3.	Crow Jane 01:26
	4.	I Know my Name is Written in the Kingdom (feat. Chris Tordini) 02:44
	5.	Sound the Visage (feat. Steven Crammer) 06:05
	6.	Fire Lapping at the Creek (feat. Xavier Del Castillo) 07:21
	7.	Al’ud 01:04
	8.	Seven Thunders Utter their Voices (feat. Xavier Del Castillo) 04:10
	9.	You Gotta Take Sick and Die some of these Days (feat. Chris Tordini) 04:50
	10.	Warm Hearts on the Lake of Fire (feat. Zekkerya El-Magharbel) 08:09

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The blues is full of the mystical and the hidden.

Bluesmen hid magical objects like rattlesnake rattlers in their guitars, which would augment the supernatural sounds of their strings with the sympathetic resonance of the snake. The devil appeared as a snake to Eve, and to Robert Johnson. In Fire Lapping at the Creek we hear these resonances from a distant time and place, from this deepest wellspring of American music making.

The music presents a puzzle. There are echoes from places one would not often associate with the Blues: the Shire Highlands of Malawi, Lutheran Convents in Saxony, and the coasts of the Arabian Sea. These strands intertwine with the blues, hymns blending into shouts and microtonal melismas that hang over broken ragtime. As each piece unfolds, an epiphany crystallizes from within the music: an “aha” moment that the Blues is connected to these settings, these echoes. Across the 10 tracks, the sextet breaks apart these strands at the heart of the blues and alchemizes them into something mystical.

The Blues itself possesses many secret things, and in these compositions Alec Goldfarb brings out this transcendent quality by making secretive the known- ghostly tunings spiderweb out from blue notes, irrational rhythms overtake loping shuffles. The... more
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releases April 12, 2024

David Leon - Alto Saxophone
Xavier Del Castillo - Tenor Saxophone
Zekkereya El-Magharbel - Trombone
Alec Goldfarb - Guitar and Composition
Chris Tordini - Contrabass
Steven Crammer - Drumset

Mixing/Mastering - Joseph Branciforte
Recorded at Big Orange Sheep by Michael Perez-Cisneros and Kevin Thomas
Artwork/Layout/Design by Rachel Meirs
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"OOTHER LOOUD MUZIK -Clozn vp Pageants since 2012" We presents new work by emerging composers & performers in New York City & elsewhere. We seek to locate a post-downtown musical practice in & out of New York City. Conceptually we support music that treats the AACM, MEV, Sonic Arts Union, No Wave, the New York School, and Vision / Arts For Art as antecedents to one emerging post-millennial genre. ... more

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