Vulneraries Vol. 4, by Garlands

Vulneraries Vol. 4

by Garlands

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1.	Purposeful Impetus 12:19	buy track
2.	Summer to Summer to Summer 19:08	buy track
3.	River Lights 08:22	buy track
4.	Places of Water 12:13

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Liner notes by David Garland:

Like other volumes of our Vulneraries series (named after an archaic term for healing medicines), this music was created collaboratively by my son Kenji and me while we were caring for Anne Garland, who was my wife and Kenji’s mother. Anne’s lung cancer, which had reached stage IV by the time it was diagnosed in October 2018, turned out nine months later to be terminal. Making music to soothe Anne and ourselves was one way of many that Kenji and I tried to make Anne’s situation more comfortable, meaningful, and loving.

The music on Vulneraries Vol. 4 is more rhythmic and joyful than that in prior volumes of Vulneraries. During the time of Anne’s illness and treatments, there was still room for happiness and light. Her discomfort was one layer of our existence, but there were other layers, like the closeness and love the three of us shared with each other and with Anne’s siblings, who visited often. The music we played during this time was often quiet and contemplative, but also sometimes we sent her vivacious vibes.

As I’ve tried to describe in previous volumes, the set-up Kenji and I use has the unique trait of being a tandem instrument. Through Kenji’s inventive modification, what I play with my hands on the guitar is processed and added to by his modular synthesizer, those sounds go back into the body of the guitar provoking further resonances and vibrations which are further elaborated on by the synth, and that process continues, all of it vibrating the wood and wire of the guitar, making in that sense an acoustic event. Kenji and I simultaneously influence the timbres, textures, and tonality, and on top of that the guitar and synth have ideas, in a sense, of their own, which we listen and respond to. But the thing is that all that makes it feel like inexplicable magic.

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released July 21, 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)

modifed 12-string guitar
played by hands and modular synthesizer
performers:
Kenji Garland and David Garland
David also plays clarinets on “Summer to Summer to Summer”

label: Tall Owl Audio
Produced by Garlands
Recorded May, June, December, 2019, and June 2020
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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