: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Steve Dawson & Funeral Bonsai Wedding : Album.......: Last Flight Out : : Label.......: KSE .. .:.. . Genre.......: Folk : Catnr.......: . ' Source......: CDR , ; Rip.date....: 2021-02-27 Str.date....: 2020-05-08 Quality.....: 236kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://stevedawsonmusic.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Last Flight Out 3:21 2. Mastodons 5:18 3. However Long It Takes 6:05 4. Parapluie de Roebke 0:34 5. The Monkey Mind Is On The Prowl 7:43 6. While We Were Staring Into Our Palms 3:03 7. It's Not What You Think 4:33 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 30:37 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 55.86 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: The idea of FUNERAL BONSAI WEDDING came to Steve Dawson while :, : riding a bus in his hometown of Chicago. Every day he passed a : :' florist with three windows, each with a sign. “Funeral,” read ': ,: one. “Bonsai,” another. “Wedding,” read the last. :, : : :' However random, Dawson realized the words sounded natural when ': ,: put together, much like the group that would share its title. :, : Indeed, when FUNERAL BONSAI WEDDING released its self-titled : :' debut album in 2014, the collaboration appeared like it ': ,: shouldn’t work. As the songwriter-singer behind Dolly Varden, an :, : acclaimed Americana band from Chicago, Dawson’s roots are : :' country and soul. He is joined by three Chicago jazz musicians ': ,: — vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, drummer Charles Rumback and :, : bassist Jason Roebke — known for their inventiveness on : :' Chicago’s legendary free jazz scene, having participated in ': ,: projects with people like Ken Vandermark, Ryley Walker, Thurston :, : Moore, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, and Nels Cline, among many : :' others. ': ,: :, : Put together, the music of FUNERAL BONSAI WEDDING is unlike all : :' of the above. On Last Flight Out, every sound is inverted: ': ,: Adasiewicz’s vibes serve as the lead instrument, Dawson’s voice :, : often leads to chants, and Rumback and Roebke shift time to move : :' the music to side pockets as they move it forward. The closest ': ,: comparison to the ephemeral blissed-out melodies is Van :, : Morrison’s epic Astral Weeks, which aims for transcendence amid : :' ordinariness. To reach those otherworldly heights, Dawson had ': ,: to invert the process he was conditioned to within the context :, : of a rock band. : :' ': ,: “It’s all about the energy,” says Dawson of the group’s sound. :, : “The way these musicians approach music is really different than : :' the way most rock bands approach music. It’s about timing and ': ,: the way they listen and respond to each other. Things are :, : looser. There’s more spontaneity. In rock bands you learn a song : :' and play it basically the same way. With these guys we nail ': ,: down the basic structure but within that structure you have a :, : lot of freedom.” : :' ': ,: The musicians first played together in 2005 at Chicago’s Elastic :, : Arts, a hothouse for experimental jazz. “It felt like I was : :' floating,” Dawson remembers. That performance led to the group ': ,: defining its sound in the studio and conducting a handful of :, : shows including its debut at Constellation, a free jazz : :' performance space and a summer performance at the Pritzker ': ,: Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park. After pausing for a few :, : years, Dawson invited Funeral Bonsai Wedding to join him for a : :' 2017 residency at the Hideout. By then original drummer Frank ': ,: Rosaly had relocated to Amsterdam and was replaced by Charles :, : Rumback. They were joined by Quartet Parapluie, an all-female : :' classical string ensemble whose members have also moonlighted ': ,: for groups like Belle and Sebastian, Iron & Wine, and Kanye :, : West. : :' ': ,: Afterward, everyone on stage knew what they needed to do next: :, : Make a record and expand the scope of what FUNERAL BONSAI : :' WEDDING could become. ': ,: :, : This time out, Jason Roebke played a bigger role in writing the : :' string arrangements to accompany Dawson’s songs, enhancing them ': ,: in ways that made even the most downcast lyrics glow with :, : beauty. “Jason added to the meaning of the songs. It’s pretty : :' incredible. I had been playing with him for many years, but it ': ,: shows me he’s paying attention to the full songs — not just his :, : part, but the whole picture,” Dawson says. “It’s really : :' wonderful.” ': ,: :, : By shedding traditional song structures, and inspired by the : :' open space created by his new collaborators, Dawson found ': ,: himself gravitating towards more impressionistic lyrics, which :, : happened to fit the surrealistic world that emerged since the : :' last record. Those details creep into Last Flight Out through ': ,: lyrics and moods that hover on the edge of both hope and :, : despondency — A state that reflects the everyday news cycle. : :' “The songs go unexpected places,” Dawson says. “I let my ': ,: imagination go where it will. I didn’t try to confirm it to a :, : traditional narrative.” : :' ': ,: The first thought had to be best thought since LAST FLIGHT OUT :, : was recorded in a single day at Kingsize Sound Labs in Chicago : :' with John Abbey at the controls. The band was fresh from a ': ,: headlining performance at Constellation and wanted to capture :, : that energy in just a few hours. : :' ': ,: For Dawson, the magic of FUNERAL BONSAI WEDDING comes from that :, : blind trust. If Dawson hadn’t seen that florist window, if he : :' hadn’t agreed on a lark to improvise on a stage he’d never ': ,: played, if he hadn’t decided to put his songs in the hands of :, : musicians he barely knew at the time — He would have been stuck. : :' ': ,: FUNERAL BONSAI WEDDING is the sound of starting over and not :, : knowing what’s next until it happens. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 1 \/