The Goddamn Marching Tide (home demos, June 2019), by Adam Gnade!

The Goddamn Marching Tide (home demos, June 2019)

by Adam Gnade!

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1.	Palace of Shit (acoustic demo) take 1 03:24	buy track
2.	Campfires (acoustic demo) take 3 04:38	buy track
3.	Interlude. From Our Place on the Floor (demo) take 1 01:19	buy track
4.	Across the Prairie and Into the Valley (acoustic demo) take 21 04:01	buy track
5.	Interlude, figure 2. Sacred Harp Singers Farmhouse Drunk Days Blues (acoustic demo) Take 2 00:41	buy track
6.	The River, the Wheel, and the Marching Tide (acoustic demo) take 1 03:08	buy track
7.	Interlude, Figure 3. New Country Stomp Improvisation (demo) take 2 01:14	buy track
8.	Today (demo) take 3 04:17	buy track

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Originally these were meant to be demos of a full-band recording. Sketches, most of them recorded as first takes, the instrumentals as improvisations. Lately I've been listening to Holly Herndon's excellent new album, PROTO, which is a bizarre and lovely studio creation complete with A.I. vocals, massive multitracking, and next-level shape note choir work. While recording this set of demos, I had the realization that as much as I love what people like Herdon are doing, the freaky studio marvels and lush weirdo orchestration, the reason I came to music in the first place was for the unpolished, intimate, imperfect/perfect artifacts you get in early American folk music. The "nonmusician" musicians (who are of course artists as much as anyone), the field recordings, the swamp blues, desert country, mountain music, old Cajun dance jams; work that is low on technology but high on the visionary output of the single entity, the individual, the person alone in a room with nothing but voice and instrument. These tracks were recorded as single takes over the course of a few afternoons in the front room of the farmhouse where I live; no band, no overdubs, no pedals, no amplification. I had a jug of the farm's homemade hibiscus-dandelion wine and I played all the instruments. No matter what the critic may judge, it felt right. I'm all for feeling right. It's a healthy way to roll.

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released June 11, 2019

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Adam Gnade's (guh nah dee) work is released as a series of books and records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing continuing plot-lines left open by the self-described "talking songs" in an attempt to compile a vast, detailed, interconnected, personal history of contemporary American life. His work is released by Bread & Roses Press, the Numero Group, and Three One G. ... more

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