Music for Staying Warm, by Justin Wright

Music for Staying Warm

by Justin Wright

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1.	Harmonic Loops (Playground Swings) 04:23	buy track
2.	Modular Winter 03:08	buy track
3.	Drone IV: Breath 05:04	buy track
4.	In Sunlight 02:41	buy track
5.	Drone II: Flutter 04:46	buy track
6.	Flutes 02:55	buy track
7.	Drone III: Saudade 03:59	buy track
8.	Improvisation 02:47	buy track
9.	Drone I: Meditation 04:33	buy track

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"Music For Staying Warm began when I was tasked with writing and performing a set of string works for a relaxation room at a chaotic all-night event in the heart of Montreal winter. It was a cold winter, and for me, a cold year, and when a cat curled up at my feet in the middle of performing these works, I felt like I was doing something right. After gradually developing these ideas many months after the first performances, I recorded most of this album during a residency at the Banff centre for the Arts, coinciding with a surprise visit from my long-time collaborator Kate Maloney.

What all of these tracks have in common, aside from being limited to string instruments, is an intention for you to relinquish your sense of anticipation. Conceptually, they were heavily inspired by particular styles of Ethiopian music such as the tizita, which often lacks any resolving cadences to leave you with it’s trademark evocation of longing without resolution.

So I guess there is a certain amount of irony in the name Music for Staying Warm. Drone III definitely isn’t warm. But refuge is just as often acceptance of where you are as it is an escape, and I hope that, whatever I was thinking when I wrote this music, you are able to contextualise it in your own life and find your own meaning." -Justin

credits

released April 5, 2019

All songs composed by Justin Wright

Violin: Kate Maloney
Additional violin by Taylor Mitz
Viola: Kate Maloney and Simran Singh
Cello: Justin Wright
Upright bass: Alex Kasimir-Smith

Recorded by James Clemens-Seely (Rolston Hall, Banff Centre), Jack Kelly, (McGill Studios) and Justin Wright

Assistant recording engineers: Matthew Manifould, Anna Blachowsky, Alex Bohn, Fox Schwach, David Wilkinson, and Damian Wiseman

Mixed by Pietro Amato at Skybarn
Mastered by Lawrence English

Cover art by Amanda Durepos

Special thanks to Steve Newton, Kate Kurdyak, Ursula Kobel, Alex Ives, Joseph Summers, Richard Wright, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Richard Reed Parry, Charles Bourassa, Erin Hall, and Sophia Maizel

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