"A Yankee Clipper In Congo Square" is a contemporary recasting of American archival audio from the 1920's-50's, featuring artists such as Blind Willie Johnson. Jelly Roll Morton and Aunt Molly Jackson, originally recorded by folklarists Alan Lomax, Herbert Halpert and others for the Library of Congress.
The goal was to create a modern historical mash-up, with each cultural and musical reference remaining true to its own style, and to wind up somewhere between folk song, film music and remix.
In creating these new compositions, the archival audio is reconfigured with original samples and new recoldings that bring together the numerous regions and time perlocls of American colloquial and popular music styles, and in the end is a present-day patchwork of Americana.
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released March 15, 2018
Produced by: Steve Mullen
Engineered by: Sam Fishkin, Steve Mullen, David Axelbaum, Rob Mertens, and Chris Szuberla
Recorded at: Rax Trax Recording, Mix Kitchen, WalkWest Studio,
Engine Studio & Airstream Audio
Mixed by: Sam Fishkin at Mix Kitchen
Mastered by: Roger Seibel of SAE Mastering
Album & website artwork designed by Al Brandtner
Logo design by Rachel Harper
Licensing & legal by Joel Weinstein
Special thanks to: William & Rachel Harper, John Rice, Keely, Maddie & Rebecca Mullen for creative feedback & direction, to Alan Berliant for endless support, to Joan Collaso for vocal talent wrangling, to all of the incredibly talented musicians it was my pleasure to work with, to Sam for his ridiculous ears & expertise, to Dean Rolando of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Rick Barnes of Rax Trax, Don Fleming of the Association for Cultural Equity, to Archie Green, Shelly Romalis, Stephen Wade, Ned Sublette, B.A. Botkin & Alan Lomax for background information, & especially to Maddie & Keely for their incredible support, encouragement & patience.
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