Nathan Salsburg - Landwerk No. 2 '2020

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       Landwerk No. 2 is a second volume of compositions built around samples
from 78-rpm phonograph records—in this case, two klezmer sides, one
Yiddish folk song, and one tune by a Slovak miners’ orchestra from
Northeastern Pennsylvania, home of six generations of Salsburgs. While the first
volume just happened to coincide with the first months of 2020’s
problematic peculiarity, No. 2 was undertaken in the depths of the late summer
and early fall, when political/social/existential despair hung at their
heaviest. These are musical attempts to translate the past into the present, or
to redeem the present through the past, or to discover, in Michael
Löwy’s formulation (in Chris Turner’s translation), a
“critical constellation formed by a particular fragment of the past with a
particular moment of the present.”

Tracklist:
1.01 - Nathan Salsburg - V (Through A Crystal Unluminous) (11:49)
1.02 - Nathan Salsburg - VI (The Rocks of Redemption) (7:30)
1.03 - Nathan Salsburg - VII (Coincident Constellation) (8:24)
1.04 - Nathan Salsburg - VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed) (8:47) 

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