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Written in 2023 for Bergamot Quartet, this song brings the compositional style from my earlier album Mayfly to my familiarity with the string quartet, featuring a vocal line sung by me and augmented by the rest of the quartet that functions as a fifth instrument. It was inspired by a walk I took last year around Roland Lake in Baltimore, a spot I spent a lot of time in when I lived in Baltimore 2014-2019.
Quilting Song is the first in a set of music I'm writing for Bergamot in this format of quartet with embedded vocals.
lyrics
Glass over everything
A slow glittering avalanche
Reflecting the deep sky
Glass underfoot
A blue you cannot touch
Cloudy through layers thinning thinning thinning but never gone
In the hand it's ruffled silence
In the water it has skin and a shadow
And it's blue....
I don't know
Go, go, will you go I know
There's something there in the dips and rises
The color of the water at low tide
Where the skin of the water and the sky used to meet
Quilting pillows that are blue and blue and blue....
Look through water into water
Look through blue into blue
Look through me into you
Glass over everything
Took the skin of the sky and the skin of the water
Put air there in blue pillows
And the water laid down flat
And the sky flew
And the wind blew and blew and blew....
Go, go, go, go, go, go...
credits
released December 21, 2023
Performed by Bergamot Quartet (Ledah Finck, Sarah Thomas, Amy Tan, Irene Han)
Recorded and mixed at Superlegal Studio by Jake Owen
Mastered by Sam Torres
2023
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