Otis Nugatory
Organic yet glitched, folksy yet forward-looking, seamless yet utterly compartmentalized. Again, just like w/ his last album, "When the Roses..." jumps on my Best Music of 2023 list 1/2way thru my 1st listen/lesson. Already struggling to not overplay this on repeat.
jaxpads
To select a specific track as "favorite" seems a futile task. I believe this album is best viewed and listened to as a continuous piece of music. Bravo, Daniel!
anothergoodsteve
Summers Fingers Sweetly Linger straight away transported me. I have hopes for the full album, that it will cut through like whiskey, which would be pretty cool for this tee-totaller.
The vinyl version of the album is pressed on 140g black vinyl by Furnace Record Pressing in Virginia. It is housed within a jacket (with insert) bearing new photography by Daniel Bachman and new artwork by Sarah Bachman.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
If you're in the need for Bachman's latest two - or three - LPs, this is for you. You even get a discount over the per-item price on these titles! Customize based off of which LPs you need. Due to flexible weight, this is only available for US delivery. (Contact us if you want a custom international freight quote.) "When The Roses Come Again" (black vinyl)! "Almanac Behind"! "Axacan" (silver vinyl - while supplies last)!
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
All of the excitement in the convenient compact disc format. Artwork by Sarah Bachman! Photographs by Daniel Bachman! Shiny!
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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The vinyl version of the album is pressed on 140g red vinyl by Furnace Record Pressing in Virginia. It is housed within a jacket (with insert) bearing new photography by Daniel Bachman and new artwork by Sarah Bachman.
Includes unlimited streaming of When The Roses Come Again
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
With Daniel Bachman’s new album, "When the Roses Come Again," he exits the steel string world where he started and tiptoes into a new one, where apparitions and nature inhabit compositions in a musical, genealogical garden.
Self-recorded in the spring of 2023 on a laptop in a cabin that leans against the border of Shenandoah National Park, "When the Roses Come Again," is culled and composed from a week of 8-hour a day improvisations. Bachman worked as a carpenter’s assistant in this cabin and borrowed it for a makeshift studio. He extended his handywork into repurposing and building his own instruments as tools for this creation. He pulled the frets off an old Hondo banjo, sanding it down, in search of new sounds and learned to build his own Appalachian mouth bow from reading an instructional manual. He cut-and-pasted free-form jams into compositions, choosing notes and passages that resonated and connected with himself and each other, sometimes altering their speed and pitch.
But this isn’t an album about living off the land or sustainable solitude. Bachman dug into the dirt of his own musical DNA. On his mother’s side of the family, who lived in the Laurel Highlands of the Alleghany Mountains, were his literal musical descendants, the Hostetler Blind Family Band. A mid-19th century string band, all born blind (including some born without eyes), the Hostetlers performed both original and traditional music on concertina, violins, cello, and dried corncobs for percussion. Bachman doesn’t try to replicate his ancestral past, he does breathe contemporary life into it through its inspiration, using oscillators and drum apps on his phone, as well as fiddle, banjo, and guitar to construct his own string band compositions. All the music was performed, arranged, and mixed entirely by Bachman, except for some of the handbells and harmonium samples played by Tyler Magill (Grand Banks/Carry).
Integrating technology as a tool for collage, as well as acoustic instruments that pre-date all of us, Bachman creates an album that has as much to do with Terry Riley, Laraaji, Eno’s late 70’s ambient albums, and 75 Dollar Bill, as it does the Carter Family, Stanley Brothers, and Hobart Smith. And though this music has an undeniable intensity at times, it grounds the listener in an otherworldly mosaic of memory and experience. “My intention with this record was to represent the spiritual machinery that moves through all life, samsara, the wheel of life, etc. starting with birth, then death, and ending in rebirth,” writes Bachman. “I see this process moving in our garden through the seasons, and through intense personal experiences I’ve had. I see it in the churning of centuries within my own family, and through exploring these intergenerational connections I hope to better understand my own place within these intangible cycles.”
This cycle of life is indicated not just by the textures and sounds of the music but by the compositions’ titles, which originate from the Carter Family’s lyrics to “When the Roses Come Again”, itself a song about life after death. The music remains light and cyclical, re-born as it reverently sings and hums. "When the Roses Come Again" is an album of not just musical leitmotifs, but re-occurring personal and natural histories that bloom long after their perennial promise is deceased.
-Jerry David DeCicca, August 2023-
credits
released November 17, 2023
All guitar, banjo, fiddle, mouthbow and other instruments performed by Daniel Bachman.
Harmonium and hand bells on tracks 3, 5 and 10 played by Tyler Magill.
Source materials recorded between March 4-10, 2023. Edited between April-July 2023. All recording and edited done in Weakley Hollow / Banco, Madison County, Virginia.
Photographs by Daniel Bachman.
Cover illustration by Sarah Bachman.
Layout/design by Darryl Norsen.
Mastering by Chuck Johnson.
Special thanks to: Aldona Dye, Cory Rayborn, Mary Hostetler Oakey, Catherine, Jesse Samuel, Bartholomew, and John Hostetler, Sarah Bachman, Tyler Magill, Dianne and Jon Bachman, Glenn Gatzke, Steev Vilereal, Sarah Lawson, Jim Durham, Rob Phoenix, Darryl Norsen, Chuck Johnson, Jerry David DeCicca, William Strevel, Joseph Decosimo, Van Burchfield, and Zoltan Bottykos.
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