This is an album of alien fairy tales. It was recorded neither for Martians nor children, but for those held captive by the darkest enchantments of modernity; namely you and me. I crafted this music to draw us out of the mundane world in which we now live, into fantasies in lands both real and imagined, finally arriving at the magical land in which we now live. We shall begin our fantasy not in cottage or castle, but in our own abode of disillusionment, escaping to places Tolkien described as filled with, “both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.”
1. When the Sky Is Big
2. Urban Nature Walk
3. Sycamore
4. I and the Village
5. Obsidian Lies
6. The Ninth Baktun 09:44
7. Magnolia
8. Lelands
9. Lucy with Levi and Catherine
10. Ginko
11. Six Demon Bag
12. Oak
13. The Ground or the Hearth
14. The Missing Coil
15. Maple
16. Nooks and Crannies
17. When the Sky Is Big
Musicians:
Jason Branscum - trombone
Brandon Coleman - guitar
Aaron Jacobs - bass guitar
Tom Buckley - drums
Except:
When the Sky Is Big:
Jason Branscum - trombone
Marc Fields - trombone
Justin Dawson - acoustic bass
Dan Dorff - drums
Trees:
Jason Branscum - trombone
Josh Kline - saxophone
Justin Dawson - acoustic bass
Tom Buckley - drums
Dan Dorff - drums
Strings:
Kanako Shimasaki - violin
Mariko Shimasaki - violin
Martin Hintz - viola (tracks 6 and 9)
Shelby Thompson - viola (tracks 4, 13, 11, and. 16)
Phillip Goist - cello
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Brandon Coleman at the Golden Mean in Cincinnati, OH
All compositions by Jason Branscum
All soundscapes conceptualized, performed, and produced by Jason Branscum and Brandon Coleman
Strings arrangements by Brandon Coleman (tracks 4, 6, 9, and 13) and Jason Branscum (tracks 11 and 16)
