Release Date: 20 November 2015
Label: Badman Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 881626974629
Release Date: 01 May 2015
Label: Badman Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 655035027111
Description
"Flurries of rippling arpeggios, rich ringing chord clusters and long, sustained single notes that hang in the air" - San Francisco Chronicle
Champaign, Illinois' Lanterna are pleased to announce their latest album release, Backyards, available February 17, 2015 on Badman Recording Co.'s instrumental-only label, Jemez Mountain. The ten-song collection completes multi-instrumentalist Henry Frayne's most compelling work to date where he crafts musical landscapes interweaving layers of warm, instrumental sonic tapestries. Backyards is the fifth Lanterna CD (and counting) to be released by Badman/Jemez Mountain.
"'Backyards' was written on an acoustic guitar, humming the melody that would become the twangy guitar part," explains Frayne. "Behind most of the songs on Backyards, the album, is an acoustic guitar part written while sitting outside in the open air with a hummed melody later replaced by echoey guitars."
For Frayne, the inception of Backyards began almost a decade ago and is a culmination of his career as a versatile musician best known for blending genres and bending guitar styles to create layers of airy overtones. For this album, most of the songs sprung from an orphaned blond Conrad hollow body six-string bequeath from a friend in 1995 along with a Gibson acoustic, purchased in a farmyard in Maine in 1983 for $5, after having survived a fire. Frayne composed the underlying textures of the record with a heavy influence from the Nashville tuning, the practice of utilizing very light strings to produce an angelic sound. Frayne leaned this Nashville tuning from bandmate Brendan Gamble during their time in The Moon Seven Times.
The cinematic photos of Boston-based Kevin Salemme have graced many a Lanterna album and Backyards is thankfully no exception. Bruce Licher, guitarist of the band Scenic and of Licher Art & Design, (and of Independent Project Records and Press fame) once again steps in to design Lanterna's album artwork. Lanterna has always been about taking a journey through sound, and through pictures, Salemme and Licher once again hold up their end of the bargain.
"As I've worked on the album Backyards I was drawn to some old live recordings of The Syndicate, Ack-Ack, Area, and The Moon Seven Times, bands I played with in the past," Frayne explains. "Before things like cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes degrade and pass from this earth I wanted to archive old shows and recordings by bands I was lucky enough to share the stage and studio with. There are echoes of these four groups all over this new album. Much of the time between 2006 and 2014 was literally spent in one backyard or another working on outdoor projects great and small, but Backyards was always playing in the back of my mind!"
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
The Innocence Mission
The Innocence Mission
Mark Kozelek
The Builders And The Butchers
The Innocence Mission
Lovers
My Morning Jacket
The Innocence Mission
The Smiths
KEG
The Rulers of the Root
Pearl Charles
The Amazons
Blue Violet
Searows
Esme Emerson
