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Release Date: 2015-02-02Label: Constellation
Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, Montreal QC, June 3-5, 2014.Sound samples from #southernsojourn2014: a scaled-down field recording weave of Roberts' 25-day ramble in wintered Mississippi/Tennessee/Louisiana USA and a touch of a very chaotic New York City 21st century.
Also samples from:
Malcom X, "Confronting White Oppression", Feb 14 1965, Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI.
Gertrude, last name unknown, homeless and sweet, downtown Jackson, MS.
Text from:
Captain G.L. Sullivan, "Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters", 1873.
Public domain songs quoted throughout:
"Star Spangled Banner" - Francis Scott Key
"Beautiful Dreamer" - Stephen Foster
"The Pledge of Allegiance" - Mississippi State Senate
"My Country Tis of Thee" - Samuel Francis Smith
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - James Weldon Johnson
"All the Pretty Horses" - unknown origin
Made in Canada (sticker)
Comes on 180g vinyl and includes art print poster and a digital download code.
Copy source of variant 2 comes with two art print posters, a 25 sq.cm. insert and download code.
Pressing/cutting company and cutting engineer are derived from matrix.
1∧ and 1+ included in runout variant 2 are mirrored.