Verdancy, by David Garland

Verdancy

by David Garland

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CH this music inspires gratitude. such beauty! such a celebration and embodiment of the lovely, the bittersweet, the mysterious, the departure, the returning, the magic of song. it's all here in a tapestry of love. Favorite track: I've Forgotten.

a_f_e it's a whole new dreamy world!!!!!!

mccle003 Every time I listen to it it's different. There's no end! And yet each piece stands out on it's own.
Favorite track: Color Piece.

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1.	Color Piece 12:37	info	buy track
2.	Color Piece Part 2 06:45
3.	Periodicity 06:32
4.	When We Moved to the Trees 06:33
5.	The River and the Train 03:04
6.	Dear Golden Deer 04:16
7.	Our Summer Night 14:26
8.	Monteverdi's Lamento della Ninfa 17:29
9.	Traveling Doors 10:42
10.	Practical Questions 06:03
11.	Dream Home 07:28
12.	I've Forgotten 08:28
13.	Efflorescence 03:37
14.	Hush and Who 06:52
15.	Caliban Calibrates the Ecosystem 16:53
16.	Lux Temporalis 22:38
17.	another rivet in the machine of the universe 07:14
18.	Deflected 13:37
19.	to weigh, to settle, to gravitate 06:52
20.	Povídej mi 14:13
21.	More Numerous of Windows 05:58
22.	Wave After Wave 12:18
23.	Winter Dance 07:34
24.	Constant World Thrive 10:01
25.	Ceaseless 03:44
26.	Luminous House 03:12
27.	Evaporation Adagio 10:37

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Patterns are the structure from which we view the world; they're also the structure that obscures our view of continuousness and constant change. The music on “Verdancy” grew out of two things: a very special modified acoustic guitar created by my son, and my move from New York City to upstate New York’s Hudson Valley. I've been given a glimpse of continuousness, a view past the frame of presumed patterns.

Living again in nature (as I did when I was a child), I vividly, finally see and experience the tumult and beauty of everything endlessly changing all the time. The guitar does that, too. The modified guitar is a genuinely electro-acoustic instrument, in which electronics aren’t generating an electronic tone, but instead provoke the vibration of wire and wood, creating a vibrating object that I interact with physically.

These elements have deeply changed my music. I feel connected to what I’ve done before, but I’m in a new, previously unknown sonic world, bushwhacking new paths, seeking beauty and danger, building new structures that suit the landscape.

—David Garland, 2018

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released March 20, 2018

Produced, arranged, recorded, mixed, and mastered by David Garland. Copyright © 2018 by David Garland. Music published by Garland Control Songs, ASCAP. Color Piece words © 1964 by Yoko Ono, Ono Music / Downtown Music (BMI). Lamento della Ninfa, public domain.

Deep thanks for the inspiration and participation of Iva Bittová (vocal, violin), Robin Dann (vocal), Arone Dyer (vocal), Kyle Gann (piano), Steve Gorn (bansuri flute), Christine Gummere (cello), Jared Samuel (vocal), Otto Hauser (percussion), Julian Lampert (double bass), Yoko Ono (words written and spoken), Adam Pierce (drums), Jonathan Talbott (viola).

12-string guitars modified by Kenji Garland. Kenj, thanks for discovering and sharing this beautiful world. Special thanks to Sean Ono Lennon for the use of his Kenji-modified guitar. Thank you, Yoko, for your inspiration and encouragement. Thanks and love to Anne.

DG: music, words, arrangements, modified 12-string guitars, vocals, piano, clarinet, ocarina, flute, recorders, Andes, pocket clarinet, slide whistle, lung-blown organ pipes, Pro-One analog synthesizer, SynthAbbott tapes, bowed psaltery, ukelin, harmonium, accordion, harmonica, bell set, glockenspiel, percussion, environmental recordings.

Images by David Garland; design by Anne Garland

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David Garland New York, New York

Composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist David Garland has been steadily shaping songs in new ways since 1980.

"Like many great songwriters before him, Garland pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. If it's not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland."
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