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We celebrated the release of this new album - with physical CDs and cake - at the combined "Live at the Old Dutch Church CD / Birthday party" on October 1st, at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston itself!
Hudson Valley Band Mamalama : New Album Live at the Old Dutch Church
The Hudson Valley based art band Mamalama has announced the release of their third album Live at the Old Dutch Church.
Mamalama spent three years writing and fine-tuning the songs captured on the new album. After extensive creative collaboration, the band recorded the album in the sanctuary of the Old Dutch Church for three days in late September 2015. Although, Mamalama is a secular ensemble, the band's instrumentation lends itself well to performance in a church setting. Fortunately, the congregation at the Old Dutch Church was extremely generous in allowing Mamalama to use their sanctuary space for the creation of the band's latest release.
Mamalama is fronted by founder and composer Elizabeth Clark on harp, piano and vocals. The rest of the group on this recording includes Henry Lowengard on hammered dulcimer, glockenspiel, recorder, and melodica; Rusty Boris on bass, Eric Ortner on violin and French horn; Cornelia Logan on cello; and Annie Roland backing vocals and octave mandolin.
All of the tracks were recorded live in the church with minimal use of overdubs. Elizabeth Clark said, “When it came time to start considering how we would begin capturing these songs in a recording, I wanted to be creating and expressing the music in a space that feels sacred. To enter a vast, open sanctuary somehow draws us inward. On a simply technical level, we really wanted to be somewhere with a large open hall to capture the natural atmospheric beauty of Mamalama's acoustic instrumentation. I've always been a fan of the natural reverb in the Old Dutch Church, as the building is an instrument all on its own. Both the building — and its giant pipe organ — are guest performers on this album.”
The seven tracks published on Live at the Old Dutch Church are: Passion of Cloud, To See if Love Can Fly, Standing on Serpents, Hallelujah, Looking Up, Falling Down, La La La, and Silver Fire. Each song has a distinctly different orchestration. The album explores mythologies, spiritual imagery, and the practice of love through a synesthetic lens.
The raw tracks from the session at Old Dutch Church were taken to Clandestine studios, also in uptown Kingston. They were mixed and produced over the course of a year by Brian Macaluso, who also worked as the album's recording engineer.
Recorded in September 2015 by Brian Macaluso of Clandestine Recording, who also mixed and mastered it.
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Tracks: 1. Passion of Cloud 2. To See If Love Can Fly 3. Standing on Serpents 4. Hallelujah 5. Looking Up, Falling Down 6. La La La 7. Silver FireAll music composed and © 2015-2016 by Elizabeth Clark and Mamalama.
Elizabeth Clark: harp, piano, voice, music, lyrics
Annie Roland: voice, shakers
Henry Lowengard: hammered dulcimer, tenor recorder, melodica, glockenspiel
Eric Ortner: violin, French horn
Cornelia Logan: cello
Rusty Boris: bass
Recorded at the Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY,
Thanks! to the staff of the church! visit their website.
Mixed and mastered at Clandestine Studios, Rosendale, NY by Brain Macaluso
Album and Song art and design by Henry Lowengard with help from Eric Ortner.
You can hear whole streamed tracks, and buy them on BandCamp! You can also click the "bc" logo on each track to get to the BandCamp page.
Physical CDs will also be available soon!
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LyricsPassion of Cloud: Qui sunt hi Qui ut nubes Qui sunt hi ut nubes pluma cecedit silenta spiritus levavit qui sunt hi ut nubes who are you that comes like cloud lifted up with body down silent feather on the ground brought me to my joy rise into your music moves like cloud moves like water brought me to my joy who are you that comes like cloud lifted up while kneeling down blossoms falling to the ground blossoms falling all around waves are light and light is sound here your Love flooded my house I hear what you said what you said the birds fly out my open mouth love come down love come down as promised! |
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LyricsTo See if Love Can Fly: been so afraid of diving in to deeper places never known this mask we painted, it's not our face it's only what we hide behind just bring it into the light to where the stars can shine just lay it under the sun where it can be seen to see if love can fly we'll throw it over the side of this cliff and if it doesn't die we'll know the reason why is love Is there anything left for us to do I've seen your demons, and I know your fruit blind and holding onto things unseen will we fall down will we fall down you've been behind the walls of my heart and bled your colors into mine I've seen your darkness and you see me through a veil through a veil. To see if love can fly we'll throw it over the side of this cliff and if it doesn't die we'll know the reason why is love Straight through day is night again on through day, the night again straight through day into night again on through night into day, to day day so long like night, like night night so long like day like day days so long like night, like night night so long, the day, the day can you feel my heartbeat it echoes from your chest you are half my heartbeat it echoes from your chest you are just that part of me that part of me that I can't love |
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LyricsStanding on Serpents: born into flesh first light of earth breath, sweet breath all things we touch and our eyes can see the colors of earth so we crawl to rise to our feet born into flesh first light of earth lost, we forget our place in the stars and our eyes can't see the beauty of earth so we crawl to rise to our feet bow low to rise to Your feet I hear you still calling a slight of hand so clear to me but my love it only rises you whisper straight to me and try to steal my love away but I know you know, I know you now. I stand on the heads of serpents, ascending rising above all your demons like those that would cling to His resurrecting body your power, it weakens in me |
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LyricsHallelujah: Hallelujah What have we done done to Your name? All that we've done done in Your name. Do you know Who I am ? |
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LyricsLooking Up Falling Down: I've been down so many roads I've been down on my knees I've been down beneath the sea I've been down to Mexico I've been up to no good I've been way up above the clouds I've been up to something no one knows I've been up to Canada at least 5 times We are looking up while we're falling down I've been into things whole heartedly I've been into paint and poetry I've been in between a rock and a hard place I've been in the dark and in the light I've been behind the scenes so many times watching the people all exchange their lines I've gotten over love that's over me I've fallen into love We are looking up while we're falling down Who knew sorrows repeated And to love yourself is not enough to love your friends is not enough to love what you have always hated and despised is where love grows tall to love yourself is not enough to feel your heart beats blood like blood like mine to know that this will be enough to fill the hole of being alone I am looking up while falling down now looking in to find you looking out. |
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LyricsLa La La: Such strange gravity changing color watch time go blind all we know praise light watch time go blind praise shadow praise light kill this nonsense slavery to our own invention! such strange gravity changing color watch time go blind all we know praise light praise shadow praise light kill this nonsense slavery to our own invention! let's go let's go la la la la la la la la la la la la la now the lion goes "prrrrrrr......meow" |
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LyricsSilver Fire: Paint me as I am paint the scars and flowers paint what's here in the end a gaze like silver fire speak your riddles into me into my ear your rose I've known nothing but this cold and in your eyes is fire Are you you are you me a gaze like silver fire the ghost in me looks out looks into you are you really what I see do we really know anything at all about fire but I'm too late to be your rose your too late to be my rose fall into the arms that are made of love fall into the arms that are made of love hollow wide hollow wide it's time to part waiting on the shore to bring this dark to light into this wound we dive meet me on the other side |