Album grabado por Ian Brennan, publicado por Sublime Frequencies (Sun City Girls), lee y disfruta:
The music is described as sounding like it’s “emanating from the past and the future simultaneously”. What musical or spiritual qualities did you capture that create this timeless, “parallel universe” feeling?
When people bore down into the core of their being, technologies, eras, and generations evaporate. What’s left is the universal experience that mankind has shared, no matter what the era, no matter where the location.
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el disco: https://sublime-frequencies.
Más del productor-grabador:
In the 1970s, media corporations realized that selling a lifestyle was much easier and more profitable than supporting art. Then, since the advent of music videos, most popular “musicians” have become visual artists more than sonic ones. The songs themselves routinely become paint-by-the-numbers where singers are literally going through the motions and performing an identity, whereas the most timeless art is a calling and requires a lifetime commitment to discover and bare one’s soul."
https://klofmag.com/2025/10/
"You’ve described your production style as minimal, often recording on a single handheld stereo microphone. Why is capturing this raw, unpolished “intimacy” more important to you than studio fidelity?
I almost always record with eight tracks and with the best microphones that mobile, battery-operated setups allow. My goal is to present artists in the most advantageous light that I’m able. But in the end, the technical aspects are meaningless if the humanity is lacking. Some of the most striking recordings of all-time not only include mistakes and distortion, but become lesser if those elements are corrected or eliminated. It is at those breaking points and thresholds where the truth of the moment reveals itself, and honoring those unrepeatable events is so much more valuable than any aspirations towards perfection."
"For your album The Oldest Voice in the World, you recorded centenarians in Azerbaijan. What did you learn from that experience about the relationship between memory, music, and a long life?
Every person has music in them. That ability doesn’t have to be trained, but rather it simply needs to not be squashed by standardization. There are few things sadder to me than when a person says, “I cannot sing,” for almost without exception that is a lie. The truth is that they’ve been made to fear expressing themselves creatively, and that is a form of abuse that regrettably is wrested upon almost all children in industrialized nations."
"I don’t endeavor to cater to any audience other than active music lovers with wide-ranging tastes and open ears. The goal is to find the point of transcendence where competition ceases and works are connected by the same through line: that they involuntarily make you feel something. For me, Ornette Coleman, Nick Drake, Fugazi, Chavela Vargas, Bill Monroe, and the Wu-Yang Clan, all trafficked in the same milieu: truth. Ours are punk rock, DIY recordings. I am interested in folk music regardless of whether it resembles the genre of Folk— music of the people, that values texture over virtuosity."
"There are over 8-billion people on the planet. The most valuable stories and voices often are ignored or remain hidden within the quietest and most meek people."
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