Southern Living At Its Finest

by PENN BRYCE

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josh moss Wonderful, beautifully produced album that meanders from singer/songwriter jams into ambient reveries and back again Favorite track: MOUNTAINS.

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1.	BABIES 05:29	lyrics	buy track
Tell me all about your babies Tell me all about their names and where they been Tell me all about your neighbors Tell me all about their dreams to live again Tell me all about your troubles, ah! Tell me all about your need, oh to fit in Take your best guess, darling, Just the state we’re in You say you won But you’re undone You say you’ve won But you’ve come undone
2.	BELLS 02:22		buy track
3.	MOUNTAINS 09:57	lyrics	buy track
Unbind me from what’s seen Set me sailing free Oh memory is fantasy Free me from my needs Through sadhana empty me I’m making peace, becoming we Unbind me from this dream Corpus christi bodhi tree Oh memory, still fantasy Help me to feel this peace Through sadhana empty me I’m going deep, forgiving me
4.	ANICCA 13:52		buy track
5.	MTNS 01:32		buy track
6.	SUNRISE 02:22		buy track

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Penn Bryce began 2020 with the intent of forming a band. As for all of us, 2020 had other plans. This record is the result.

Of the pieces here, only “Babies” was relatively complete before the pandemic. “Mountains'' was a few chords and nothing else. Prior to the actual recording over the past year, Bryce had little or no sense of what most of this record would sound like before actually recording it. “Improvised” suggests too intentional a process. This music, taken as a whole, just happened.

Roughly a month before this release, Bryce understood that he had his record. Intention kicked in. Relatively formless recordings were edited into form. “Mountains” got lyrics. After some overdubs, tracks were sequenced into a whole, or more precisely two halves, through cross-fades and jump-cuts.

One approach to meditation practice is to cultivate absolute presence with what actually is: not what one wants, not some sense of bliss, but precisely what is. Once off the cushion, we approach a different world. Musically, Penn Bryce cultivated that presence in these recordings. He heard what happened, gave it form, and offers it here. - Bill Foreman

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released May 7, 2021

recorded at home & studilaroche
Atlanta, Georgia
4/20/20, 5/21/20, 9/11/20
09/23/20, 12/28/20, 02/06/20
03/30/21 <-> 04/30/21

mixed at studilaroche by Benjamin Price
May 1/2/3/4 2021

mastered by Benjamin Price at Mastering Atlanta
May 6/7 2021

assistant engineer Avery Williams

PENN BRYCE voices, Goya acoustic guitar, Telecaster, Mustang, Jazz Deluxe, Jerry Jones Electric Sitar Guitar, drums, cymbals, gong, percussion, piano

Avery Williams cello
George viola
_CuteFox_ clavé
Jeff Holt drone

Liner notes by Bill Foreman

miss you Ricky

Originally issued 7 May 2021
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