The Imperfectionist, by Marla Vellows

The Imperfectionist

by Marla Vellows

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2.	Arya 02:33		buy track
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Demos played in an old stone kiln on the summer solstice in the Hudson Valley.

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released September 5, 2021

Unedited live takes of ten songs written in the last year or so, sung and played on guitar, recorded on a phone on June 20, 2021.

Album cover photo is by dear Olivia. Artist photos by Lindsay Skedgell (Mother Juniper: motherjuniper.bandcamp.com ) from the weekend of the recording.

Thank you members of the Dream Alliance, who occasioned this recording and my first release, especially Melinda Kiefer and Chris Santiago (www.kiefersantiago.com).

Brief note about the centuries-old kiln: It is one of two at this spot, wide circles of dry-laid stones stacked up tall, doming towards the sky. Plants dig roots into the cracks, mosses gather on their roundness, and bats make them home. Inside, two cut-outs at the peak punctuate the darkness with windows to the light. I've sprinkled in pictures with the tracks, and you can hear their local sounds (birds, winds, traffic, train).

The kilns were once used in the manufacture of iron: "The Wassaic Charcoal Pits are all that remain of the Reed, Gridley & Co. Iron Works, which remained open to the mid-to-late 1820s. The charcoal made in the pits was used to fire the Gridley Blast Furnace. Constructed of stone, the pits are about 30 feet in diameter with an entrance about six-feet high. It took about three weeks of slow burning to transform wood into charcoal. This charcoal was used for fuel in the blast furnace because of its low sulfur content which is harmful to iron." (source: www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/wassaic-iron/)

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