Road Journal: Return from Elsewhere

by Arthur Durkee

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1.	20 Minutes Short of a Year 04:36	info	buy track
2.	Rumi's Tambourine 04:05	lyrics	buy track
Texts are excerpts from The Mathnavi, the spontaneous spiritual poetry of Jalaladdin Rumi, trans. by John Moyne and Coleman Barks. Rum used the analogy of music often to express Divine Love, as in these poems.
3.	Trance (remix) 09:22	info	buy track
4.	Desert Drive 11:48	info	buy track
5.	Traveling 13:06	info	buy track
6.	Dreamstone 06:46	info	buy track
7.	Overcast (Remix) 08:44	info	buy track
8.	Aurorae 04:30	info	buy track
9.	Kanjo 07:01	info	buy track
10.	Waterline 06:05	info	buy track
11.	Everybody Falling (in memoriam shuttle Columbia, STS 107) 06:41	lyrics	buy track
Everybody Falling (lyrics) • Everybody falling falling down falling from the blue falling too sinking down into the sea into the ground strange luck • Everybody falling falling too fall too far fall too fast sink into the sun arms spread out sink into the past strange footprint • Everybody falling rising up rise again rising into the blue everybody falling, falling rising too strange (Saint Paul, MN, 2003)
12.	Postlude (Return from Elsewhere) 04:55	info	buy track
13.	Winter Stillness (Icicle Mix) 05:01	info	buy track

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“Road Journal: Return from Elsewhere” began as a compilation album of individual tracks made mostly before 2006, with a few updated remixes. Most of these pieces began as individual compositions for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from film soundtracks to solo studio improvisations, from music for meditation and energy healing work to world music compilations curated by others. Later I decided to gather them into an album of my own. I titled the album after my online weblog and podcast, the Black Dragon Road Journal, and Dragoncave, that I had begun in 2004, when I moved West, and maintained throughout my time living there.

As I listened to these tracks many times during long solo road trips across the Western and Rocky Mountain states, when I lived in New Mexico and California, I discovered a unifying theme for this disparate music: travel, the journey, and the return. During this same period, I wrote a number of long essays and poems on the same theme, published on my weblog and podcast, which in my mind are associated with this album.

The music evokes for me the wide open spaces of the “big sky country” of Wyoming, the Basin and Range region of Nevada and eastern Oregon, and the long empty, perfectly aligned roads of the West.

The “open spaces” of world music cultures ranging from the Near East across Asia to Indonesia are also featured on this album, in its instrumentation and musical concepts.

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released December 23, 2019

Written & Produced by Arthur Durkee
in association with Al Jewer and Andy Mitran, Two Trees Innerworlds
and Flying Trailer Publishing

this album edition © 2019 Arthur Durkee. All Rights Reserved.
(originally produced between 2002 and 2006, released 2009)

Artwork & photography © Arthur Durkee. All Rights Reserved.

Recorded at Dragonsweyr (St. Paul, MN; Arroyo Hondo, NM; Pinole, CA)
and at Mitran Mitran Studio, Chicago, IL
and at Laughing Cat Studio, Chicago, IL
Engineered by AD, with Al jewer, and Andy Mitran (tracks 4, 5, 6)

Remixed and remastered 2019 by AD at Dragonsweyr (Ann Arbor, MI)

Arthur Durkee: Chapman Stick with Infinite Sustain, riq, bodhran, tar, dumbek, shakuhachi, suling, Moog, loops, beats, softsynths, effects, voice

Al Jewer: flute, Native American cedar flute, wind synth, soundscape (4, 5, 6)

Andy Mitran: marimba, percussion, synth (4, 5)

Siggi Baldursson: drums, percussion (6)

Eddie Estrin: bells (3)

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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