Album release day
April 10, 2020
It’s out! Take a listen on any of the streaming services or you can get a CD or Vinyl copy on Bandcamp.
Links to everything here: https://bit.ly/radishesnflwrs
This was going to be a big day of celebration. A house show, a party with friends, and Treefort. Crack open some vinyl and spin the record. But the virus changed a lot of things. Today is an Instagram party and a packing and shipping day instead!
It’s almost exactly 3 years from when I bought a 1960s Sears & Roebuck parlor guitar, detuned it, and started singing poems from Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium over what I was strumming. It took me a while to figure out to shape them into something that felt true to the poems but also worked as a standalone piece of music.
1960s Sears & Roebuck
I wrote all the songs on this weird old parlor guitar. It’s truly magical.
The last time I released a record was in 2005. Me and my friend Tyson were folding cardboard cases and hand-painting the art on each one. After a long hiatus, it’s good to be back at it.
“if this were a mountain I would be surrounded” - mathbird 2005
The final tracklist:
Nomad Exquisite
Captain Profundo (from “The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade”)
Life is Motion
Susanna (from “Peter Quince at the Clavier pt. 1”)
Beauty is Momentary (from “Peter Quince at the Clavier pt. 2-3”)
Nuances of a theme by Williams
Earthy Anecdote
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Snow Man
The Death of a Soldier
Interlude
Radishes and Flowers (from “Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges”)
To the Roaring Wind
Thanks for listening.