D. Spaulding // Jilt Matrimonial Turkey Heartland Desert Classic Jubilee TAPE

アメリカのシンガーソングライターD. Spauldingが、2024年9月に同国フォークレーベルLove's Devoteeからリリースした共作2枚組レコードです。

アコースティックギター弾き語り10曲を収録。

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Ask us for digital files. Cassette in norelco case. Edition of 100. 

Tracklist:

1. Death Valley 03:54
2. The Actor 02:21
3. Bulldozer 01:54
4. Tokyo 03:36
5. Apollo 04:28
6. Yours Truly 03:12
7. Coat of Arms 02:34
8. Two Owls 02:24
9. Little Dipper 02:00
10. Jilt Matrimonial Turkey Heartland Desert Classic Jubilee 04:34

Love's Devotee:

"“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.” Ray Bradbury wrote these words in Dandelion Wine, the novel in which a young boy named Douglas Spaulding floats through the summer of 1928. In 2024, D. Spaulding is the solo project of Eric Shuster, a musician based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, USA. Jilt Matrimonial Turkey Heartland Desert Classic Jubilee is his debut, an album of softly poetic, lo-fi bedroom folk crafted with quiet concentration and presented as a cassette release by Love’s Devotee, the fledgling label based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.

The D. Spaulding project began in earnest after the loss of a friend. Intended as a music for coping, the songs of Jilt Matrimonial Turkey Heartland Desert Classic Jubilee bear themes of love and loss, one’s life’s work, family and the ephemeral. Presented with minimal arrangements and questioning lyrics, the songs have a haikulike quality which feels enigmatic but also intuitively relatable. For instance, “Bulldozer” is elegiac and wistful, depicting a drive through a forlorn landscape. But there are subtle joys as well, from monumental events like recognizing one’s family lineage while traveling in unfamiliar lands to something small like feeling the warm spot on the couch after the cat moves.

The album’s closer—and title track—ends things on a jubilant note, with the singer promising the viewer “I’ll see you at the jilt matrimonial turkey heartland desert classic jubilee.” This seemingly unhinged and incoherent mash-up of words might read like a Surrealist exquisite corpse but like the strangest things in this world, it is indeed torn from reality (in this case a t-shirt found in a thrift shop). It’s moments like these that are best captured in D. Spaulding’s music, which listeners may find resonates with the elegantly minimal folk of Maxine Funke, the prosaic home recordings of Sibylle Baier or the emotional warmth of Elizabeth Cotton’s guitar ballads. Love’s Devotee is proud to release this humble yet serenely powerful album, which will be accompanied by select live performances. "

Artist : D. Spaulding

Label : Love's Devotee

CAT no : LOVED-003