Vulneraries Vol. 3 Mortality, by Garlands

Vulneraries Vol. 3 Mortality

by Garlands

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1.	Mortality 1 05:24	buy track
2.	Mortality 2 05:23	buy track
3.	Mortality 3 05:36	buy track
4.	Mortality 4 06:07	buy track
5.	Mortality 5 02:36	buy track
6.	Mortality 6 (I Am the Whole Tree) 28:20
7.	Mortality 7 06:46
8.	Mortality 8 05:30

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David Garland’s liner notes:

Mortality was recorded in the days immediately following the death of my wife (and Kenji’s mother) Anne Garland. During her last week, Anne’s gradual but unrelenting decline from lung cancer became even more precipitous.

Kenji and I had spent the previous nine months doing whatever we could to mitigate Anne’s discomforts. There was a limit to how effective our efforts could be, but it was always a sort of dialog with Anne and her body, and all of us were constantly making adjustments for whatever benefit was possible. We didn’t experienced Anne’s illness as a general state of being, but as a constantly changing moment of now in which the effort to help her was the focus.

Anne became less responsive in her final week—which of course we didn’t know was her final week, until it was. She was less and less able to have a dialog with us about her condition, so, increasingly, all we could do was reach out to her with touch, love, and sound. During the last days it wasn’t clear how much did reach her, but we offered and tried. Sometimes I played guitar next to her. Wanting to provide some sense of serenity, I came up with the simple, stately sequence that has become the Mortality theme.

During Anne’s last days I learned something I hadn’t know before: the body knows how to die. Just as our unconscious biological systems know how to keep us alive, making our hearts beat and lungs breathe, they also know how to gradually shut down and turn off. It’s a formidable, harrowing process to witness. It’s also a privilege to be present for someone you love as their body completes this secret rite.

Our instrumental set-up allows and requires us to be engrossed in and attentive to our evolving sounds. Making this music helped us to hold on a bit to the encompassing perspective we’d gained, to experience our feelings, and, in this different context, to be in the constantly changing moment of now.

Kenji and I have music we recorded in prior months that we’re going to release, but I wanted to work with the Mortality material right away, to address our immediate experience. As usual, the means of recording was just a pair of microphones near the guitar. There are no overdubs. I Am the Whole Tree was released digitally, published immediately after Anne’s death, but I’ve come to feel it also belongs here as part of this suite.

—David Garland, February 2020

At Anne’s request, all income from Vulneraries will be donated to National Nurses United, the largest labor union and progressive professional association of registered nurses in the United States. Among other campaigns, NNU is helping lead the movement for Medicare for All: “healthcare justice—accessible, quality healthcare for all—as a human right.” (nationalnursesunited.org, medicare4all.org)

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released March 25, 2020

modifed 12-string guitar
played by hands and modular synthesizer
performers:
Kenji Garland and David Garland

label: Tall Owl Audio
Produced by Garlands
Recorded June 22-28, 2019
Music copyright © 2020 by David Garland and Kenji Garland
Published by Garland Control Songs ASCAP
Images and design by David 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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