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Tracklist

 

A1. Swimming, Tuesday
A2. Trade Winds    
A3. The Bragging Rights    

A4. Her Breathing

A5. Our Fathers

B1. Step Outside
B2. 'A Dip'

B3. Blue Out 
B4. His Walking 
B5. End of the Night

Personnel, Credits

 

Chris Brokaw: electric guitar

with

David Michael Curry: viola A5, B2

Lori Goldston: cello A3

Luther Gray: drums A2, A5, B1, B4

Greg Kelley: trumpet A1, B5

Samara Lubelski: violin A4

Jonah Sacks: cello A5, B2

Timo Shanko: bass A5, B2, B4

Cover art by Sandy Dvore

Produced by Chris Brokaw

Recorded April 2017 - May 2018

in Seattle, Cambridge, Somerville and Brooklyn.

 

Engineers: David Michael Curry, Mel Dettmer, Andy Hong, Kate Siefker, Steve Silverstein.

Mixed by David Michael Curry

Mastered by Jeff Yellen

 

All songs by Chris Brokaw, Calimoxcho Music (BMI).

VDSQ-024:  

Chris Brokaw  

End of the Night

LP housed in textured tip-on jacket

SKU: VDSQ-024 / LP - $20

Step Outside - Chris Brokaw
00:0000:00

The End of the Night was conceived around a simple concept. Late one evening the musician and myself were listening to records at home. After many hours it got to the point where everything became completely still, the silence permeating the walls, reverberating. We agreed to listen to one more record, but what would it be? What music could answer that existential quandary of the perfect last record of the night at home? I instantly asked him to make me the very record we needed to hear at the moment, a record for the end of the night.

Several years passed before the execution of the concept could take place but Brokaw was collecting notes in the back of his mind the entire time. I suggested collaborators like Greg Kelley (on Chet Baker style trumpet, knowing Brokaw’s strong affinity for that player) and Samara Lubelski (whom he played with briefly in Thurston Moore and the New Wave Bandits). Bringing in guests such as Lori Goldston, David Michael Curry, Luther Gray, Jonah Sacks and Timo Shanko, each track has its own unique combination of small group formations (duos, trios, quartets) very much like jazz, both in instrumentation and mood, if not style or standards.

While Brokaw himself is a brilliantly narrative guitarist, known for taking collaborative projects he’s involved with to new heights, rarely has he opened his solo work to the same collaborative spaces as with his group projects. The result is a multi-hued, jazz-tinged instrumental record with a melancholy resolve and a deep blue/purple filter. Very much a product of his song writing and playing, The End of the Night’s guests allow the guitarist to show his interplay and prowess in a variety of settings rooted around a common theme. The album art was done by Hollywood legend Sandy Dvore (Buffalo Springfield, The Cake, Partrdge Family), who composed the drawing after hearing the album in full, directly inspired by the music, adding a visual element similar to the stylistic innovations of David Stone Martin.


Unlike anything else in Brokaw’s catalog, VDSQ is proud to issue this essential recording that we believe merits new attention to a beloved artist who has been part of the fabric of the underground/independent music community for decades. While we have the utmost respect for his body of work, both solo and with his many groups, The End Of The Night may very well be the greatest record he’s yet made. We hope this special album has a place on your stereo for many years to come. Play at night and not too loud.

 

- Steve Lowenthal, VDSQ Records

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