A new formation voicing string, breath and bell, harp, horn and drum speaking sparkling messages and hand-written letters of a Chain of New Hopes, back and forth, from the past and future dreams of a world in which efficiency would not be and will not be, the way to justice. Read closely the new language in the titles of this first movement of Glass Triangle, utter them, enunciate them, out loud. Tickle the tongue, hear the rhythmic tone of your throat echoes: these will introduce you then to the way angles, lines, turns, returns, all crystalline, all vibrating, quiet sometimes, soft never, sharp and sweet, build a mountaintop of sun, ice, fog, rain, snow, sky, light, transmission and cosmic rays. "
-Josiah McElheny, artist NYC, summer 2020
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credits
released December 13, 2021
1. Begiunners, Begges, Beattle, Belt, Believers [6:09]
2. Nat Bygone, Just Bigonne [8:55]
3. Flood Of Trees [13:13]
4. The Crystal Chain Letters [6:53]
5. Merlin And The Gleam [7:33]
6. Melts Into Surface [5:11]
released February 26, 2021
Zeena Parkins: electric harp
Mette Rasmussen : alto saxophone
Ryan Sawyer: percussion
Recorded at Thump Recording Studios June 19, 2019
Recorded by John Thayer
art:/photos/liners: Josiah McElheny
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