Live at the West China Tea House (Austin, Texas 2022.05.28)

by Michael Garfield

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	1.	Talk 03:05
	2.	The 120th Shrine 03:44
	3.	Talk 02:26
	4.	Always Catching Up 04:14
	5.	Talk 00:27
	6.	Soothing The Savage Beast > Ada > Pachinko 05:17
	7.	Talk 00:32
	8.	Whispering At Night 08:54
	9.	Talk 00:48
	10.	Let It All Get Out 05:27
	11.	Talk 00:20
	12.	6 pm Tea Ceremony 03:57
	13.	10 pm Tea Ceremony 05:30

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Intimate "storyteller" format acoustic and electroacoustic concert spanning fourteen years of songwriting, with some teahouse-specific improvisations to accompany gong fu tea ceremony. This was my first show in Austin, Texas in nearly four years, a very emotionally intense reunion with old friends and the land I love and once called home. Big thanks to So Han Fan and Nate Bell at the West China Tea House for making space for me to play a family-friendly concert (you can hear my kids screaming throughout) and for the live Future Fossils Podcast I taped there in between sets with Kevin Welch and David Hensley of EFF-Austin:
www.patreon.com/posts/67616896

If you want a blast from the past (or into the future?), I played one of my favorite late-night instrumental sets at their pop-up tea house at Utopia Festival back in 2017, when they were still called the Guan Yin Tea House:
michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/alive-in-guan-yin-at-utopia

Album cover is from my ongoing series of AI art experiments with Midjourney, all of which I'm archiving for Patreon supporters' personal use:
www.patreon.com/posts/68072105

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released July 5, 2022

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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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