“In conceiving this project, I wanted to focus on creating the material with very few ingredients; just improvising at the drums or piano or singing ideas into a voice recorder, focusing primarily on rhythm and melody. I want to see what other ingredients the players or singers would bring to the material. I’m interested in a true band sound: I want to know how the musicians will color, shape, and season the raw ingredients, and how to pull all of those pieces together to a whole.” - Nate Smith
01. Intro: Wish You Were Here
02. Skip Step
03. Bounce: pts I + II
04. Mom: Postcards From Detroit/Floyd/Salem
05. Retold
06. Disenchantment: The Weight
07. Spinning Down
08. Pages
09. From Here: Interlude
10. Morning and Allison
11. Spiracles
12 Small Moves: Interlude
13. Dad: Postcards from Isaac Street
14. Home Free (for Peter Joe)
Produced by Nate Smith for Waterbaby Music, Inc.
Executive Producers: Kelvin A. Moses, Anthony A. Lewis, Ira N. Smith
Mixed by Brian Bender at The Motherbrain, Los Angeles, CA
Kris Bowers: piano, fender rhodes
Fima Ephron: electric bass
Jeremy Most: guitars
Jaleel Shaw: alto and soprano saxophones
Featuring:
Dave Holland: acoustic bass, “Skip Step” “Spinning Down”
Lionel Loueke: guitar, “Skip Step” “Spinning Down”
Chris Potter: tenor saxophone, “Bounce parts I + II”
Gretchen Parlato: vocals, “Pages”
Michael Mayo: vocals, vocal percussion/effects, “Skip Step” “Retold”
Amma Whatt: vocals, “Disenchantment: The Weight” “Morning and Allison”
Adam Rogers: acoustic and electric guitars, “Spiracles”
Strings on “Disenchantment: The Weight” arranged by Kris Bowers
Strings on “Home Free (for Peter Joe)” arranged by Nate Smith
Stephanie Matthews: violin I
Juliette Jones: violin II/contractor
Christiana Liberis: viola
Reenat Pinchas: cello
