House Ship On A Hill
by Michael Garfield
Alex Feldman
Alex Feldman
Michael Garfield continues to raise the bar with this latest record. Dreamy post-folk (?), just delightful. Eager to hear the full release!
Favorite track: Whispering At Night.
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Autonomous Zone
04:28
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You never said that it could be replaced
I never knew that we could be erased
And you're on your own
But if the sentence is a way to waste
A living allegory in its place
Can we ever know?
There is a vision of the Samothrace
They kept me here to help eliminate
The autonomous
I never needed any hesitation
Everything is in its way the same
As it ever was
And it's okay, it's okay
But when we never gave a hand a cage
We very nearly set the walls aflame
And it's all you know
I didn't think that it would be a phase
That everybody kept their wings displayed
And we all go home
And it's okay, it's okay
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Whispering At Night
02:52
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You never came when I called
You never talked to the doll
You never saw me at all
I fated both of us hastily
You knew the taste, we'd
Never go missing
But all I see is eyes and why
I only see the sky for flies and light
You only recognize
I said let's play chess
You said you digress
We met with a wall
I wasn't nine at the time
You were so fine
And right with it all
But all we need is wine and I
Will very likely write the sigh
I heard you whispering at night
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Ada
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about
Here is some of the most emotional and mysterious music I've ever recorded. This is Part I of a full album forthcoming — full playlist to include:
We Police Ourselves
A Merry Mess
Ian
The 120th Shrine
Buried Together
Seeing Like A State
Frog Seven Green
"It takes a certain ability and passion to be vulnerable to release artwork as raw and iridescent as these songs...they came as a complete surprise to me. Hearing ["Autonomous Zone"] filled me with much unexpected emotion. It made my heart hurt, if I’m gonna be honest..."
- Sandra Lam
These songs landed in me with force and urgency in 2020, amidst global upheaval and epochal life changes, in a tiny basement apartment in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico – where my wife and I waited for and then welcomed our first child, and watched her grow. These are songs about confinement and liberation, hope and anxiety, love and loss, joy and mystery. They haunted me, at length and vividly, and wrote themselves after almost a decade of slow currents, just one song a year. The all-at-once-ness of this inspiration was unusual, but no less than its circumstances...I hope you hear in these a record of the tragic beauty and uncanny brilliance of a time and place.
Life hasn't stopped and 2020 gave me more songs than time to record them, so buying these songs subscribes you to the rest of them as soon as they are ready. Rather than wait until I can get all seven down, I felt like sharing what I have so far before my daughter's little brother is born...the rest will come, along with more new songs, but I owe it to the muse to get these out now. I hope they help you, too, abide in the complex, diaphonous, and potent energies that animate these times...
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Watch "Evading Confinement" (deepdream collaboration with data artist Kirell Benzi using an instrumental reworking of "Autonomous Zone"):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_0B3NAZxA
We Police Ourselves
A Merry Mess
Ian
The 120th Shrine
Buried Together
Seeing Like A State
Frog Seven Green
"It takes a certain ability and passion to be vulnerable to release artwork as raw and iridescent as these songs...they came as a complete surprise to me. Hearing ["Autonomous Zone"] filled me with much unexpected emotion. It made my heart hurt, if I’m gonna be honest..."
- Sandra Lam
These songs landed in me with force and urgency in 2020, amidst global upheaval and epochal life changes, in a tiny basement apartment in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico – where my wife and I waited for and then welcomed our first child, and watched her grow. These are songs about confinement and liberation, hope and anxiety, love and loss, joy and mystery. They haunted me, at length and vividly, and wrote themselves after almost a decade of slow currents, just one song a year. The all-at-once-ness of this inspiration was unusual, but no less than its circumstances...I hope you hear in these a record of the tragic beauty and uncanny brilliance of a time and place.
Life hasn't stopped and 2020 gave me more songs than time to record them, so buying these songs subscribes you to the rest of them as soon as they are ready. Rather than wait until I can get all seven down, I felt like sharing what I have so far before my daughter's little brother is born...the rest will come, along with more new songs, but I owe it to the muse to get these out now. I hope they help you, too, abide in the complex, diaphonous, and potent energies that animate these times...
~ ~ ~
Watch "Evading Confinement" (deepdream collaboration with data artist Kirell Benzi using an instrumental reworking of "Autonomous Zone"):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_0B3NAZxA
credits
released March 23, 2021
Michael Garfield — Guitar, Voice, Synthesizers, Sampling, Programming, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art
Thanks to Mitch Mignano (deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com) for lending his ears to fine-tune my mixing.
Dedicated to Nicole Taylor and Ada Taylor Garfield.
Michael Garfield — Guitar, Voice, Synthesizers, Sampling, Programming, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art
Thanks to Mitch Mignano (deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com) for lending his ears to fine-tune my mixing.
Dedicated to Nicole Taylor and Ada Taylor Garfield.
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Michael Garfield Santa Fe, New Mexico
Singer-songwriter, avant-guitarist, and live electronic producer all at once, Michael's dynamic live shows and intricate albums takes listeners on emotional trips spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde.
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