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The Busker

Jacob Duncan

Label: Calvin Cycle Collective
Released: 2017
Duration: 48 minut
Views: 1,980

Tracks

Backyard Self Portrait, Warsaw of Ermou, Yuni et Anais, Kentucky Child, The Locked Door, Down By Monk's Pond, Hamburg, 1998, Spyro's Song, Green Maria

Personnel

Jacob Duncan
saxophone, alto

Additional Personnel / Information

Jacob Duncan: Alto Saxophone, John Goldsby: Bass, Craig Wagner: acoustic guitar

Album Description

Jacob Duncan’s “The Busker” is a treasure — at once timeless, raw, distinctive, and passionate. The protagonists of Duncan’s autobiographical compositions are fellow companions, drifters, and triumphant nomads exclaiming their insignificance. The album balances acute sonic observations of a traveler’s microcosm with grand hints at the struggle to understand the macrocosm. The compositions are melodically- driven, sincere, musical conversations between storytellers. They are undisguised, earthy improvisations about comings and goings, estrangements, and connections. Duncan’s arrangements are sometimes sad, sometimes playful, and always original. They are well-served by his masterful companions, John Goldsby on double bass and Craig Wagner on acoustic guitar. It is paradoxical that, The Busker, a musical memoir of an American traveling other continents, is in form and spirit the ultimate distillation of American music. Duncan’s compositions are constructed of the greatest melodic aspects of the American songbook and, the intimate, yet universal colloquialisms of the American folk traditions. Despite being instrumentals, each piece evokes the voice of a troubadour lulling the listener into a lucid dream, in which they become the teller of their own tall tales.


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