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Brian Dolphin & Earth Person

by Brian Dolphin & Earth Person

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1.
Everything You've Got 02:21
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2.
Chickadee 03:11
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3.
Wallah Wallah 04:31
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4.
Towers 03:32
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5.
Whose Land 03:28
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6.
Leave Tomorrow 04:17
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7.
One by One 03:48
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8.
Don't Get Stuck 03:26
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about

I met Earth Person (AKA Devon Cole) on a farm in Maine about five years ago when I was on tour with The Live Cultures. He came up to me after the show and bought a CD and told me he loved the music and he gave me a tape of his own original music. I quickly lost this tape in the big car I used to drive back then.

Two years later, when I was driving alone on a long road trip, I rifled through my car’s tape collection, found this curious tape and put it in the tape deck. It sang of the new love that I was feeling. It brought me to musical landscapes I had only heard in my mind. It made me pull over after a couple songs and completely weep and beautifully bawl and feel all the feelings I needed to feel.

I listened to his tape over and over, and after some weeks, I decided to email him and plant the seed of, “Hey, if I’m ever in Maine, maybe we could make some cool music together…” Months later, somehow, my plans aligned to be in Maine. I called him up and in a week of 12 hour days, we recorded four songs of shared musical material. We thought we were inventing a new genre called “Folktronica"; we were so young back then ;). Those songs were finished that summer and the rest of the songs took another year to fully finish recording and mixing, with us driving back and forth to each others houses, and with me recording the cellos, vocals, and fiddles of friends in what was a walk-in-closet home recording studio. With him doing a lot of the mixing on his laptop.

We shopped the album out to labels and thought that it only made sense releasing our collaborative album on a tape label because of that initial romantic spark and that analog ability to play the same thing over and over again. We found Outward Records and loved their catalog of different electronic, experimental, eclectic wonderful music. They liked our album. A couple years and several musical projects later, this album was finally released in its entirety on Outward Records, and auspiciously in the prime of summer, so many notes of which are deeply baked into the album.

credits

released June 29, 2019

Brian Dolphin: voice, guitars, harmonium, banjo, ukulele,
whistles, delay pedal, drums, percussion
Earth Person (Devon Cole): voice, guitar, synthesizer,
stylophone, percussion, drum pad/beats, production and sample magic
Audrey Maddox: voice on “everything”, “chickadee”, “towers”
Zoe Guigueno: upright bass on “whose land”, “leave tomorrow”,
“don’t get stuck"
Alex Kramer: fiddle on “chickadee”, “whose land”
Elizabeth LaPrelle: voice and whistle on “chickadee”
Amy Alvey: fiddle on “chickadee”
Inna Kovtun: voice and yodel on “whose land"
Alina Knyazikevich: voice on “whose land"
Hannah Sassoon: cello on “one by one"
Annie Schermer: voice on “one by one"
Channing Showalter: voice on “one by one"
Carolyn Stallard: vibraphone on “one by one"

Featuring audio samples, used with permission,
from Varanasi, India, on “wallah wallah”.

All songs © 2017
Written and Recorded by Brian Dolphin & Earth Person
in Portland, ME and Brooklyn, NY.
Mastered by Don Fierro at Hakanai Recordings.
Cover Art by Emily New.

www.patreon.com/dolphinandyou/
earthperson.bandcamp.com
outwardrecords.bandcamp.com

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Brian Dolphin New York, New York

Brian has studied folk music all over the world. He writes songs, learns and teaches about music, and organizes singing gatherings. He loves Eastern European folk harmony.

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