the labor of forgetting, by Lucy Fitz Gibbon & Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

the labor of forgetting

by Lucy Fitz Gibbon & Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

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1.	Shibui—a dirge in memory of my mentor, Deborah Clasquin 03:25	buy track
2.	Four Years of Fog, Year 1—Blissfully Ignorant 07:05	buy track
3.	Four Years of Fog, Year 2—Sickness and Exile 05:34	buy track
4.	Four Years of Fog, Year 3—A New Adolescence 04:06 video	buy track
5.	Four Years of Fog, Year 4—The Local Zenith 05:56	buy track
6.	estrangement, I. only once (a) 01:29 video	buy track
7.	estrangement, II. why, she sees, it didn't occur to her 03:16	buy track
8.	estrangement, III. only once (b) 01:39	buy track
9.	estrangement, IV. rejection only possible 01:27	buy track
10.	estrangement, V. it was then 02:29	buy track
11.	estrangement, VI. the film 01:31	buy track
12.	estrangement, VII. how the film ends 01:42	buy track
13.	estrangement, VIII. she rarely recalled 00:49	buy track
14.	estrangement, IX. she left them 01:41	buy track
15.	estrangement, X. only the song 05:09	buy track
16.	estrangement, XI. the labor of forgetting 01:57	buy track
17.	estrangement, XII. the novel 01:25	buy track
18.	estrangement, XIII. in a jar 03:11	buy track
19.	Shibui (reprise in just intonation) 03:16	buy track

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“The program so sincerely produced on the ‘labor of forgetting,’ the debut release from False Azure Records, reminds me of Pauline Oliveros, who once said, ‘Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.’”
—Sequenza21

This atmospheric and emotionally potent album features new works by composers Katherine Balch and Dante De Silva, performed by husband and wife duo of soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough. De Silva's "Four Years of Fog", for just-tuned piano, is an exploration of the emotional tumult of youth, and Balch's "estrangement", a setting of California poet Katie Ford's epic poem, is a modern response to Schumann/Heine's "Dichterliebe," delivered from the perspective of the unheard woman in Heine's poetry.

Dante De Silva (b. 1978)
Shibui—a dirge in memory of my mentor, Deborah Clasquin (2009) for solo piano

Four Years of Fog (2016) for just-tuned piano

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano

Katherine Balch (b. 1991)
& Katie Ford (b. 1975)
estrangement (2020) for voice and piano

with Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano

Linda S. Fitz Gibbon (b. 1958)
Brainiac (2019), ceramic art

credits

released November 4, 2022

Shibui and Four Years of Fog—
Recorded June 30th to July 3rd, 2018, in Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Session producer: Dante De Silva
Piano technician: Ken Walkup

estrangement—
Recorded March 10th, 2022, in Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Session producer: Katherine Balch
Piano technician: Ken Walkup

Audio engineering, editing, mixing, and mastering by Windowpane Audio

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False Azure Records is an independent label emphasizing intimate explorations of new and lesser-known chamber music, art song, piano (and other keyboard) repertoire, electro-acoustic hallucinations, and field recording. Please visit falseazurerecords.com for more infomation. ... more

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