José Medeles

Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems

JB217

$ 8.00

Format

Digital - WAV

Digital - MP3

QUANTITY

DETAILS

TRACKS

Side A

Please Send To J.F. w/ Marisa Anderson
Richness Of Peace w/ M. Ward
Golden w// Chris Funk
Takoma w/ Marisa Anderson
Juxaposition w/ Chris Funk

Side B

Something Else w/ M. Ward
Before & After w/ Marisa Anderson
Illumination w/ Chris Funk
Mid The Ice & Snow w/ Marisa Anderson

RELEASE DATE

05/20/2022

• COLLABORATIONS WITH M. WARD, MARISA ANDERSON & CHRIS FUNK

• 1ST PRESSING ON CLEAR VINYL WITH BLACK SMOKE

Led by drummer José Medeles (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Revival Drum Shop), Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems is a drummer’s tribute to guitarist and DIY iconoclast John Fahey. Joined for a series of guitar and drum duets with M. Ward, experimental guitarist Marisa Anderson, and Chris Funk (Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus), it’s a genuinely honorific project, featuring not Fahey compositions, but rather a series of improvised rendezvous inspired and informed by his looseness and rhythmic idiosyncrasies. Recording in the comfortable setting of Bocce Recording in Vancouver, WA, in 2020, these duets are playful and spiritually deep, presented with snapshot clarity Medeles likens to the recordings of Alan Lomax or Chris Strachwitz, “who boldly captured field recording of Southern chain gangs and juke joint raconteurs decades ago. The result here is similar: pure and honest recordings.”