Golden Arm Trio, Why The Sea Is Salt - 53m 7s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Ship	1:01
2. Finster Crumley	2:44
3. Poor Brother Percival	3:12
4. The Whispering Campaign	2:46
5. Swift Ship Sailing	1:56
6. Deadman's Hall	1:44
7. The Old Woodcutter	4:26
8. Treasure Hunt	3:42
9. Handmill Turning	0:35
10. Friends and Neighbors	3:56
11. My Halo Hands, My Halo Labors	1:44
12. Handmill's Fortune	1:26
13. I Can Do Whatever I Want	1:24
14. Late Ship Wandering	1:17
15. The Handmill	2:55
16. Golden Empire	5:59
17. Captain Goodnight	2:28
18. Deadman's Salt	3:30
19. The Ship at the Bottom of the Sea	6:09

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Review

At first glance, the Golden Arm Trio sounds like a hyper-creative band of genre benders. That initial impression turns out to be roundly accurate. It's also incomplete. As it turns out, the trio is really not a trio at all. Graham Reynolds, an Austin, Texas, polymath known for film scores, evocative string passages, and gut-busting intensity, is the trio, but he's always got lots of collaborators to help him out. Like Richard Marriott of the Club Foot Orchestra, Reynolds makes music that either overtly or covertly goes swimmingly with films and dramas. Battleship Potemkin, a puppet theater troupe, and more are the occasions for some of this dramatic music, and the rest is simply potent in its own many-limbed way. There are richly swaying string quartets from the Tosca String Quartet, eerie organ draperies thrown across orchestral hints, pieces that sound like charged post-bop jazz, and plenty of space for this all to take stage seamlessly. Why the Sea Is Salt is a great work, one that recalls the early days of Kronos Quartet and all their promise. --Andrew Bartlett"Why The Sea Is Salt" is the second full-length release by Austin's Golden Arm Trio. Recorded with 16 musicians (including the string quartet of Austin tango group Tosca) on a variety of classical string instruments and traditional jazz brass/woodwinds, "Sea" is a collection of compositions inspired by the fairy tale of the same name and select pieces from GA3's accompaniment to the Eisenstein film "Battleship Potemkin" (which has been performed in both Austin and San Francisco). Alternately playful, intense and breathtaking, "Sea" is a must for any fan of Prokofiev, Bernard Herrmann, or even John Zorn.

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