The Vale of Soul-Making and Five Broke Downe Homesick for the Open Road Medley Blues, Take Your Pick, Weave Your Earrings, Apply For Asylum

Endless Poetry by Al. Jordorowsky

And how is the
heart to become this Medium but in a world of Circumstances?

https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/the-vale-of-soul-making  

These tracks were all concieved and recorded at my home studio in Poznan in October of 2022. They were also poetically mapped karmically erratically membered long before in the swim I walk in this flight through skies called My Life of glacier. Instrumentation: voice, synthesizer, clay tiles, feedback, radio, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, melodica, zither, shortwave radios, field recordings, audiomulch live processing (track 3 and 8 ). Texts are by Stefan Ellis (7), William Blake (4) and myself (1). Track 8 is a composition for randomized replay of shortwave radio captures with live overdubbed improvisations based on considered tone sets for acoustic guitar, mandolin and melodica. Pleased to meet you all in the sound and to, in pleasure and woe, rebuild the anima mundi---  Jeff Gburek, November 4, 2022

N.B. Album is currently set as name your own price and will remain that way until I feel like it should be changed. The piece with Stephen Ellis' poem will be available for free download ad aeternitatis

 https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/five-broke-downe-homesick-for-the-open-road-medley-blues

    Five Broke Downe Homesick for the Open Road Medley Blues came to me as the title for those homespun tracks I recorded in October bounced off of various field recordings from the Summer 2022 . They are all recorded spontaneously at various locations They are mixed location recordings. One can glean, listen, hear the domestic and wilderness noises in the backgrounds (1), campfires, foxes or wolves, crickets (3). The tracks are mostly raw juxtapositions of field recordings/improvisations and dubbed improvisations in other locations without any editing, such that I've kept the recording artefacts (turning on the machine and turning it off) inside the final mixes. The final track (Abu Simbal) features a prepared guitar I call the Pseudo-Oud: an old acoustic guitar from which I stripped off some frets, supplied it with an odd assortment of strings, gave it a large metal wood screw atop plastic canister-lid as a bridge and played it quite close to the microphones to get this spacious reverberant sound. In the spirit of DIY and live experience of natural environments and the stardust transmutation.
__JG__

 

 The Man From Atlantis aka Michael Sill writes this about the album: "fantastic improvised guitar playing that is intimate and devoid of any pretence. Favorite track: Abu Simbal."

 George Christian, Brazilian guitarist & composer writes: "Barebones and haunting harmonies that can be really peaceful... Beautiful string work"

 

  http://www.lewisiana.nl/painquotes/keats-on-soul-making.pdf