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01. AARON MARTIN - Lightning In Meadow Grass
02. AARON MARTIN - New Madrid
03. AARON MARTIN - Orange To Eyeball
04. AARON MARTIN - Sugar And Dirt
05. AARON MARTIN - The Slowest Flood
06. AARON MARTIN - Two And A Half Acres
07. AARON MARTIN - Sewickley
08. AARON MARTIN - Branch Wheel
09. AARON MARTIN - Tilton's
ARTIST
TITLE
Chautauqua
FORMAT
CD

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CATALOG #
PRE 026CD PRE 026CD
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RELEASE DATE
10/27/2009

This is the third solo album from cellist and sound-sculptor Aaron Martin. Aaron not only surprised many with his 2007 debut Almond, but gained attention worldwide. The album set him on a course of many collaborations, and he has since worked with a diverse array of artists, including Machinefabriek, Dawn Smithson (Jessamine, Sunn O)))) and Jasper TX. His second album, River Water, proved a darkly compelling turn and stands as a forebear to Chautauqua in its pursuit of a distillation of pure emotional range, poised at the meeting point of intensity, calm and resolution. Now, Chautauqua puts Aaron's considerable talents and unique compositional vision at their most sharp and measured level yet. Concentrating on a core group of instruments -- cello, banjo and organ -- the pieces on Chautauqua are interwoven with field recordings as well as sounds from home movies, creating an edge tingling with a heightened, ghostly kind of nostalgia. Chautauqua is a poignant work, magnetic in its compulsion.