Christo Graham // Music For Horses LP

カナダ・オンタリオのカントリー作家Christo Grahamが、2024年10月に同国トロントのオールジャンルレーベルWe Are Busy Bodiesから500部限定でリリースしたレコードです。

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Ask us for digital files. 12" black vinyl. Edition of 500. 

Tracklist:

1. Hunker Down 03:45
2. Pancakes and Eggs 03:53
3. Hand of God 02:34
4. Lonely Enough 02:54
5. Hilltop Coffee Stop 02:39
6. Circle of Stone 06:01
7. If I Don't Leave Now 03:35
8. In The Shadow Of Man 03:24
9. Unwanted 02:52
10. Hunger Stone 04:29
11. Tears In My Coffee 03:18
12. Hippie Cahier 03:13

Artist statement (excerpt):

"I had a plan to record a handful of songs at my parents’ cabin over the New Year holiday at the start of 2023 but my TEAC 2340 had other ideas. This tape machine was saying “write, don’t record”… and that was a good tip. Sometimes I’m hasty with that red button and don’t have songs fully shaped before the tape is rolling. I still let that happen musically and I let the moment and the machine be the producer but lyrically, the songs on Music For Horses feel complete and really personal. Which is why I like to think it’s for horses because I didn’t want to be aspiring to anyone else’s standard or taste but my own… so if people don’t like it, it’s really a win-win because they get to say it’s not for them and I get to say I told you so.

Music For Horses is a bit of a return to my 2020 record Turnin’s sensibilities. I had written those songs over a year and recorded them all to tape within a month and I did a similar thing with these songs. When you’re working in rep theatre and have a matinee in the afternoon before you rehearse for a different show at night, your time is very limited. I had a drum kit and my recording setup stashed under a blanket in an 115-year-old classroom-turned-rehearsal hall and would sneak in there to record late at night or on a day off. It’s also a return of sorts because during the isolation of this past pandemic I wrote and recorded two other albums that may or may not see the light of day… one was about astral projection and the other is a rock opera about the Toronto Circus Riot of 1855. I’ve never really left songs behind— I know it’s normal to have songs that never surface but it’s not how I usually work. I usually record everything I write and find a spot for it on an album so this feels a bit like I’m getting back on that horse, as it were. Just getting music out into the animal kingdom..."

Artist : Christo Graham

Label ; We Are Busy Bodies