The June Carriers // Equanimity CD

ポルトガルのアンビエント・ギタリストThe June Carriersが、2024年4月にアメリカ・NYのフォークレーベルYoungbloodsからリリースしたCDです。

エレキギターによる、ロードムービーのサウンドトラックのようなアンビエント・フォーク12曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Youngbloods releases available at Tobira. 

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CD in digipack.

Tracklist:

1. Aim of Aims 01:56
2. Day's Different 02:03
3. Katy, When 03:07
4. Red Half Sea 01:51
5. Pastoral Epigraph 03:08
6. Life's Briefly So 02:08
7. Lyrical I 03:20
8. Where Did You Come From, You Sweet Horses? 04:17 video
9. No Wealth, No Ruin 03:25
10. Small Price to Pay For What They Know 02:58
11. Parable 02:37
12. Hervist 03:39

Text excerpt by Youngbloods:

"Youngbloods opens its 2024 programming by introducing The June Carriers project by Portuguese songwriter Francisco Silva aka Old Jerusalem. The full length album Equanimity is a departure from his prolific past, turning to open-ended guitar works that are warm in tone, measured in pace, and ponderous in structure. Equanimity casts a series of aural still lifes that reflect the wisdom (and namesake) borrowed from an ancient 10th century collection of Zen riddles. Silva points to one in particular: a pilgrim is asked what the purpose of his pilgrimage is, to which he claims he does not know, he is merely following the wind. Silva, finding himself in similar circumstances, found inspiration in the riddle’s conclusion that not knowing is most intimate.

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Stylistically , Equanimity inspires visual apparitions and open-ended story telling amidst a blend of staccato-led rhythms and waves of embracing chords, reminiscent of the Atlantic rolling along Porto’s western shores. Shades of Americana and traditional Portuguese folk stand alongside whispering recollections of endless afternoons and warm days. Compositionally Equanimity stands atop individual snapshots of Silva in an unencumbered mode of creation, culminating and blooming into the intimate freedom of being unburdened. In this zen state of unknowing, we effortlessly become both the observer and the agent. Only then can the album find its conclusion, where enlightenment feels less fleeting. "

Artist : The June Carriers

Label : Youngbloods