Searching For The Disappeared Hour
Released: October 2021
- Sylvie Courvoisier – piano
- Mary Halvorson – guitar
Tracks:
- Golden Proportion
- Lulu’s Second Theorem
- Faceless Smears
- Four-Point Play
- Moonbow
- Torrential
- Mind Out Of Time
- Party Dress
- Bent Yellow
- The Disappearing Hour
- Gates & Passes
- Blizzard Rings
Searching For The Disappeared Hour
Released: October 29, 2021
- Sylvie Courvoisier – piano
- Mary Halvorson – guitar
Tracks:
- Golden Proportion
- Lulu’s Second Theorem
- Faceless Smears
- Four-Point Play
- Moonbow
- Torrential
- Mind Out Of Time
- Party Dress
- Bent Yellow
- The Disappearing Hour
- Gates & Passes
- Blizzard Rings
Courvoisier/Halvorson - Searching For The Disappeared Hour – The Arts Fuse – Francis Davis
December 29, 2021Jazz isn’t an orthodoxy, a religion, a form of faith healing, or a tribal rite — you don’t have to be in the room with it the moment it happens to reap its benefits. When I had to scramble to …
Courvoisier/Halvorson - Searching For The Disappeared Hour – All About Jazz – Jerome Wilson
December 16, 2021Despite all the continuing crises in the world, great creative music flourished in 2021 as it always seems to do. There were some artists like Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer who continued their regular flow of excellent releases, other …
Courvoisier/Halvorson - Searching For The Disappeared Hour – NPR – Nate Chinen
December 16, 2021What caught my ear and held it in 2021? There’s no coherent formula to the dozen albums that constitute this answer — except that they all came from a place of fierce and abiding commitment. You can hear it plain …
Mary Halvorson guitar
Produced by David Breskin
Recorded by Ron Saint Germain & Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY June 2 & 3, 2021
Mixed by Ron Saint Germain at Saint’s Place, July 27 & 28, 2021
Mastered by Scott Hull, Masterdisk, Peekskill, NY
Album art: five gouaches by Dike Blair, courtesy the artist and Karma, New York City
Mary’s songs: 1,3,6, 9, 11 – Meltframe Music (BMI)
Sylvie’s songs: 2, 5, 7, 10 – Sylvie Courvoisier (SUISA, ASCAP)
Shared songs: 4,8,12
Album design and layout: Spottswood Erving and July Creek for Janky Defense
Thanks to Kris Davis at Pyroclastic, Kevin Reilly, Ryan Streber, Ron Saint Germain, Isabel and David Breskin, and to Dike Blair for the generous use of his gouaches.
Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary Halvorson and Pyroclastic Records © ℗ 2021
Dike Blair © 1989, 1990, 2016