Ended the weekend and welcomed the new week and new month with Rain On The Road by Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements, released on ThrillJockey in 2024.

Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements are two of contemporary music's most renowned innovators. Each has managed to expand the perception of their instrument’s capabilities. Lattimore inventive harp processing and looping has brought the instrument to a new audience...The Los Angeles based duo became quick friends on overlapping tours, sharing both a drive to push the sonic possibilities of their instruments and roots in North Carolina. Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements debut collaboration Rain on the Road blossomed out of that time spent on the road together, capturing the liminal existence of touring life in deeply cinematic compositions.

https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/rain-on-the-road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sLkNrmT-RU&list=OLAK5uy_miPASzHwAApdxR3J8BRryD6ISccHQwDx4

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Mary Lattimore, Meg Baird & Walt McClements:
🎵 And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me

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https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/track/and-then-he-wrapped-his-wings-around-me-feat-meg-baird-and-walt-mcclements

https://open.spotify.com/track/4spsHCOzhCKwXR0cE7Hnm3

I ended the week and started the weekend with A Hole In The Fence by Walt McClements released on American Dreams Records in 2021

Joanthan Wilinger wrote for Pitchfork:

"Nothing else Walt McClements has recorded sounds remotely like A Hole in the Fence..His pop songwriting is vanilla and earnest, and the focus on accordion as a focal point provides a passing resemblance to Beirut’s early records, but with traces of post-punk skitter and fewer literary ambitions. By contrast, A Hole in the Fence, his first record under his given name, is all shadow and abstraction, full of heaving drones and flickering specks of reedy treble that steadily fluctuate and churn. While the album’s five pieces for electronically processed accordion sound like tentative steps into the unknown by a composer just figuring out his strengths, McClements often channels feelings of genuine wonder into his layers of swirling, overtone-rich chords..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQps-TUTMaE&list=PLqKq6MKmErb_oUaP8-SN2tsUOks04StGR&index=1

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