• 1.1. haven
  • 1.2. coming down for you
  • 1.3. teal
  • 1.4. cycle
  • 1.5. when what it is
  • 1.6. the fading
  • 1.7. the sway
  • 1.8. awake
  • 1.9. stay all night
  • 1.10. tell me something
  • 1.11. high on the mountain
  • 1.12. any day now

shelley, joan

like the river loses the sea

LIKE THE RIVER LOSES THE SEA

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LIKE THE RIVER LOSES THE SEA

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Much of this album was recorded in Iceland. Breath warm from singing rises into frozen air. Atomized. A million bright blue crystals _ the fractal branching of the lungs _ drift back to earth. Radiant, refracting. Clear notes melt like perfect soft snow. Straight lines curve and curve again. Much of this album was recorded in Iceland, but Joan Shelley wrote these songs in Kentucky. That's the dirt clinging to their roots. The wind blowing through Osage orange and pine trees is the joy and ache and urgency of these songs. It's the silence and the music. It's the space between time and words and the stillness in Joan's voice. The world spins more slowly. Moss overtakes a fallen tree. Kentucky is where we plant seeds of regret and stay to watch them ... read more