February Newsletter Bonus: NEW ALBUM RELEASES

Two new albums for 2019! Wayne National Forest is OUT NOW on Bandcamp (on my own small imprint, Winesap Records), and Shawnee, Ohio will be released on April 26 on Karl Records (Berlin). More information below!

OUT NOW: Wayne National Forest

I've started my own imprint on Bandcamp, called Winesap Records, and am excited to share my first release, called Wayne National Forest.

A precursor and a premonition, a foreshadowing and a foreboding, Wayne National Forest is a quiet companion to Shawnee, Ohio. Recorded with the same Shawnee ensemble––that features Paul de Jong (The Books) and Anna Roberts-Gevalt (Anna and Elizabeth) among others––the pieces are delicate, static, and contemplative. 

Long tones are met with independent rhythms and subtle changes that reflect the soundscapes of the forest, located in Appalachian Ohio. For many years, I’ve been walking in this forest to listen and learn of its histories of mining and extraction. The album shares a common sensibility: of quiet listening, of natural rhythms, of fixed movement, and how the past can seep into our present ears. 
 

OUT APRIL 26 on KARL RECORDS: SHAWNEE, OHIO

I am pleased to announce that Shawnee, Ohio will be released on April 29th, on Karl Records (Berlin). The recording is available both as a CD in a heavy cardboard digipack with a 20 page booklet, and as a digital download.

Many years in the making, Shawnee, Ohio is a musical portrait––past and present, real and imagined––of a small Appalachian town in the United States. The Shawnee ensemble features Paul de Jong (The Books) and Anna Roberts-Gevalt (Anna and Elizabeth). Past and present are tangled together in a haunting world of music, stories, and images.