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Two slabs of vinyl to contain this big boy. Same great album in a more annoying format! If you want to listen to this baby straight through, you gotta get up off the couch. A collector's item for sure.
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The Freedom Ring is an attempt to make something deeper and better than the sonic distractions that pass for popular music these days. Something has been robbed from us, something has made our music duller and simpler, impoverished us both materially and spiritually. The hegemonic Ego-music that we’ve been fed and surrounded by for our entire lives is nothing, a dull thumping in the walls, a propaganda of hopelessness, a self-imposed prison from which we refuse to look up and see the variegated plumage of the transdimensional rainbow phoenix hanging in the sky with our soul-names caught in its beak.
The Freedom Ring tries to reverse all that bad cultural ju-ju within the idiosyncratic confines of one middle-aged white guy’s concept album.
There is soul in this music, and I hope that your soul can feel and respond to it. Most of us are just pretending to be soulless so we can keep our place in the pyramid. But the pyramid is collapsing- you don’t need to pretend that you believe in it or enjoy it anymore. Let it go, free your mind, try on some new concepts. See where it takes you. See who aligns with you. Work with them! The future is unwritten, an undiscovered country waiting to be shaped and brought into being by you. A greater intelligence works through us, through me, through you, desperate to be freed from the dead appendages of the past.
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released January 9, 2024
Final Introduction
Drums: Robert Biggers
Bass: Andy Magowan
Piano: Bear Bashford
Guitar: Bryan Crabtree, Bob Wall
Percussion: Nate Stalfa
Violins: Sarah Griffin
Violas: Matt Chicurel, Aspen Angerer
Cellos: Lindsay Stipe
Horns: Danny Grewen, Steve Cowles, Todd Hershberger
Synths: Rob Mossefin
Vocals: Joe Dryer, Sarge Sweeney, Linda Coerr, Michelle Kersey, Seamus Kenney, Amelia Shull
Requiem For All Living Things
Drums: Robert Biggers
Bass: Andy Magowan
Piano: Bear Bashford
Violin & Viola: Sara Moore
Cello: Elijah Purefoy
Guitar: Dave Jernigan
Backing Vocals: Finn Cohen, Joe Dryer, Sarge Sweeney, Linda Coerr, Michelle Kersey, Amelia Shull
Percussion: Nate Stalfa
Out of Joint
Drums- Robert Biggers
Conga- Ken Moshesh
Synth- Bear Bashford, Jil Christensen
Bass- Andy Magowan, Brendan Love
Bass Clarinet: Crowmeat Bob
Guitar- Finn Cohen
Vocals- Amelia Shull, Michelle Kersey, Chuck Samuels, Joe Smith, Noah Goyette
The One Sided Lake
Drums- Matt Young, Steve Carter
Bass- Andy Magowan
Upright Bass- Nathan Golub
Piano- Bear Bashford
Guitars- Andy Shull, Finn Cohen
Synth: Jil Christensen
Bass Clarinet: Crowmeat Bob
Backing Vocals- Amelia Shull, Seamus Kenney, Noah Goyette, Chuck Samuels, Finn Cohen
Vocal Arrangement by Seamus Kenney & Andrew Magowan
The Book of Genesis as Adapted by Stanley Kubrick
Drums- Robert Biggers
Percussion- Ken Moshesh, Finn Cohen
Bass- Andy magowan
Fender Rhodes- Jil Christensen
Piano- Bear Bashford
Wurlitzer Electric Piano- Bob Wall
Acetone Organ- Sara Moore
Farfisa- Sean Murphy
Electric Guitar- Dave Jernigan
Pedal Steel- Nathan Golub
“Alien Signal” Guitar: Andy Shull
Vocals- Kaitlin Grady, Seamus Kenny, Amelia Shull
Vocal Arrangement by Seamus Kenney & Andrew Magowan
On the Head
Upright Bass- David Lines
Piano- Andy Magowan
Viola- Matt Stutzman
Violin- Sara Moore
Percussion- John Price
Marimba- Steve Carter
Xylophone- Roland Ottewell
Here Now
Synths- Bear Bashford, Roland Ottewell
Bass- Andy Magowan
Guitar- Andy Shull
Violins- Sara Moore, Katherine Magowan, Silver Wevel
Viola- Matt Stutzman
Cello- Lindsay Stipe
Percussion- Matt Young, Robert Biggers
Vocals- Seamus Kenney, Brian Rice, Amelia Shull, Michelle Kersey
Vocal Arrangement by Seamus Kenney & Andrew Magowan
Death is a Kindness in Disguise
Drums; Robert Biggers
Bass: Andy Magowan
Guitar: Bob Wall
Violins: Sarah Griffin
Violas: Matt Chicurel
Cellos: Lindsay Stipe
Tambourine: Nate Stalfa
Vocals: Sarge Sweeney, Linda Coerr, Joe Dryer, Michelle Kersey
The Lonely Bird
Piano- Bear Bashford
Bass, Vibes- Andrew Magowan
Cello- Kaitlin Grady
Vocals- Amelia Shull, Chuck Samuels, Kaitlin Grady
My Testament
Bass: Andy Magowan
Drums: Robert Bigger
Piano: Bear Bashford
Horns: Danny Grewen, Steve Cowles, Todd Hershberger
Percussion: Nate Stalfa
Guitar: Bob Wall
Synth: Rob Mossefin
Violins: Sarah Griffin
Violas: Matt Chicurel
Cellos: Lindsay Stipe
Vocals: Amelia Shull, Seamus Kenney, Chuck Samuels, Michele Kersey
Horn Arrangement by Danny Grewen
All songs, lead vocals & arrangements by Andy Magowan
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Scott Solter
Here Now & On The Head Recorded by Allen Palmer
Recorded over the course of 2016-2022
For Katherine, George & Peter & a better world.
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