Glimmering by Garlands
My son Kenji and I have been creating musical vulneraries together since my late wife (and Kenji’s mother) Anne Garland began treatments for cancer in 2018. Vulnerary is an archaic term for a medication — herb, balm or, in this case, music — used to promote healing. Here at the end of 2020, a year of extraordinary stress for everyone, we all need healing. “Glimmering” is meant to simultaneously relax and energize the listener. With our special tandem set-up of interconnected 12-string guitar and modular synthesizer, we explore, at the pace of calm breathing, the opulent vibrations of an F major 7th chord.
— David Garland, Dec. 31, 2020
Tracklist
| 1. | Garlands - Glimmering | 13:28 |
Credits
Modified 12-string guitar
played by hands, and modular synthesizer
Performers:
David Garland, Kenji Garland
label: Tall Owl Audio TOA10
Produced by David Garland and Kenji Garland
Recorded December 29, 2020
Music copyright © 2020 by David Garland and Kenji Garland
Published by Garland Control Songs ASCAP
Images and design by David Garland
License
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Composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist David Garland has been steadily shaping songs in new ways since 1980.
"Like many great songwriters before him, Garland pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. If it's not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland."
--Sean Lennon