Old Saw // Country Tropics - Meridian Edition 2xLP [COLOR]

アメリカ・ニューイングランドのペダルスチール奏者Henry Birdsey率いるアンビエントフォーク・ドローンバンドOld Sawが、2024年7月に同国NYのアンビエント作家Post Moves主宰レーベルLobby Artから300部限定でリリースした再発2枚組レコードです。

ペダルスチール、バンジョー、パイプオルガン、アコースティックギターによる、ロードムービーのサウンドトラックのような牧歌アンビエントフォーク・ドローン4曲＋リミックス4曲を収録。DLコードと帯付属。

マスタリングはAndrew Weathersが担当しています。

Henry Birdsey - pedal steel, lap steel
Bob Driftwood - banjo
Ira Dorset- fiddle
Rev. Clarence Lewis - pipe organ
Harper Reed - resonator guitar, nylon string guitar
Ann Rowlis - orchestral bells

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Includes DL code.

2xLP housed in reverse board jacket with metallic silver ink and vellum OBI:
- 1xLP (Black) Country Tropics (Repress)
- 1xLP (Clear) Country Tropics - Meridian Edition (Remixes) 

Tracklist:

1. Dead Creek Drawl (Meridian Edition) 10:10
2. The Mechanical Bull at Our Lady of the Valley (Meridian Edition) 11:26
3. Dirtbikes of Heaven, Grains of the Field (Meridian Edition) 07:28
4. Chewing the Bridle (Meridian Edition) 09:15
5. Dead Creek Drawl 08:20
6. The Mechanical Bull at Our Lady of the Valley 13:06
7. Dirtbikes of Heaven, Grains of the Field 07:31
8. Chewing the Bridle 09:15 

Lobby Art:

Bio:

A network of New England string pluckers, organ drivers, and bell ringers craft a rusted and granular shadow world where the dive bar meets the divine. Country Tropics treats the landscape as an iceberg as the ensemble dredges up silt, clay, weeds, and trash to craft a more holy image of our tattered landscape"

"Devotional music and its devotees all do a bit of "buying in"; that while one's on the ground reality may appear anything but celestial, through this music, one can reach ecstatic space, ecstatic peace. However, devotional music is not solely concerned with a skyward glance - what does it look like to raise up the rust, look upon fractured branches, gaze at the density of a low fog across a field? Instead of us looking up at the land, what if the land was looking back at us? Old Saw brings together a brigade of New England silt sifters to raise up the land not as excavators, but as preparators. Tending and caring for the simple mess that our world discards. Throughout "Country Tropics" four pieces, the crew stretches and bends chords to their resting place before setting forth towards a new one. Fiddle drone, wistful tape loops of pedal steel, pipe organ hums, and clattering bells call us to scenes of observation, a water tower, a mechanical bull rental agency, a back porch, a taxidermy shop, a local church choir, a garden with singing vines, voltage hum of the electric fence on Pulp mill bridge road.

The funny thing about devotion is the absence of sight, of source. We place trust in the guide or guides to bring us to a place of seeing, feeling, and hearing. The music on "Country Tropics" calls out to those in search of such places, but also doesn't demand we conjure some fantastical, celestial vision of understanding. Rather, Old Saw points our gaze downward towards the terrafirma unconsidered, and guides our hands into the dirt."

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Credits:

Henry Birdsey - pedal steel, lap steel
Bob Driftwood - banjo
Ira Dorset- fiddle
Rev. Clarence Lewis - pipe organ
Harper Reed - resonator guitar, nylon string guitar
Ann Rowlis - orchestral bells
Recorded by Henry Birdsey at Meridian HQ in February 2021
Mastering by Andrew Weathers
Album Image by Sam Youkilis
Design by Ximena Bedoya & Sam Wenc

Remix clear LP :

Ryder Tarbox: cassette + 8-track loops
Luther Severance: reel-to-reels 

Artist : Old Saw

Label : Lobby Art