Grange

Grange is a new instrumental record; it's also a melodramatic non-representational portrait of America from the time of the annexation of Texas to the present day. I guess it could be classified as post-rock or experimental, maybe. Composed and performed exclusively on acoustic and electric (as opposed to software-based) instruments Grange is certainly not an electronic music album, although it is informed by contemporary forms and through the arrangements and editing. Named after The National Grange Of The Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the album in influenced by open spaces and the relentless, rigorous and sometimes menacing order imposed on the land by humans. I used a constellation of ideas to give the album form: Manifest Destiny, golf, the disappearing bees, manufactured realities, deserted towns, regicide, migration of species, etc. 

I brought in some great players to contribute: Joe Lewis on upright bass, Cornelius Boots on bass clarinet, throat singing, taimu-shakuhachi and metal pipes,Rich Bologna on prepared piano and organ and Alan Stewart on acoustic guitar. Mastering by Drucifer. 

The CD package is a 6 panel fold-out digipack featuring really really nice Holga photographs by Dafna Kory.