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01. Theodore Cale Schafer - Gold Chain
02. Theodore Cale Schafer - No Piano
03. Theodore Cale Schafer - Hunter
04. Theodore Cale Schafer - Crowd
05. Theodore Cale Schafer - It's Late
06. Theodore Cale Schafer - Blue Fleece
07. Theodore Cale Schafer - IWYWCB
08. Theodore Cale Schafer - Hinoki
ARTIST
TITLE
Patience
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SOD 122LP SOD 122LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/11/2019

Patience is the debut full-length album by Sante Fe-based artist Theodore Cale Schafer. Alternately murky and narcoleptic and bristling with grit and light, this collection of eight pieces is a delicate play of contrasts. Impressionistic settings unfurl with an unhurried gait, opening with the dream-like disorientation of "Gold Chain" in which a degraded location recording gives way to a soft web of treated piano motifs. Schafer's compositions are sumptuous yet unfussy, recalling perhaps the concise, vignette-oriented tape works of Andrew Chalk, which seem to prioritize spontaneity and ephemerality over preciousness and decorum. This approach yields substantive results, as on "It's Late", which marries a dolorous, clanging guitar sketch to the sound of change jostling in the pocket of a walker and the laughter of friends or passersby. This is diaristic music -- rough-hewn, confessional, and teeming with possibility. Theodore Cale Schafer has released on Amethyst Sunset and Summer Isle. Artwork by Andrea Bjurström. Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering. Includes download code; First edition of 300.