Four Poems for Robin

by Alex Wand

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As is often the case with music projects, this release has been a long time coming. Alex first showed me these songs when we met as graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Fall of 2019. In those pre-pandemic days, we started meeting and improvising on this song cycle centered on the words of Gary Snyder. After playing, these words would stick in my head for days. When I started Hungry Badger, I did so hoping that Alex and I could release the recordings we eventually put together remotely in 2020. Now, over a year on from completing the recordings, we are incredibly excited to release the song cycle as one, long-form recording with interspersed field recordings. This release also marks Hungry Badger's first foray into print publishing as we are working on producing a songbook for the release.

-Brock Stuessi, September 30, 2021

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released October 1, 2021

Alex Wand - Compositions, Meantone Guitar, Voice, Field Recordings
Brock Stuessi - Upright Bass, Field Recordings
Cari Stevens - Voice

Mixed by Alex Wand
Mastered by Daniel Eaton at Little Castle Mastering

Text: "Four Poems for Robin" By Gary Snyder, from THE BACK COUNTRY, copyright © 1968 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

00:00 - I. Siwashing it out once in Siuslaw Forest
02:05 - II. A spring night in Shokoku-ji
04:49 - III. An autumn morning in Shokoku-ji
06:07 - IV. December at Yase

Artwork by Ione Maria Rojas
www.instagram.com/ionemariarojas/

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Alex Wand Santa Cruz, California

Alex Wand is a composer interested in folk music, ecology, futurism, social practice art, tuning systems, field recording, and dance/multimedia collaborations.

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