docile cobras, by rootless

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1.	lost at sea 05:28	buy track
2.	peculiar travel suggestions 04:11	buy track
3.	silence has a sound 05:29	buy track
4.	shared consciousness 03:22	buy track
5.	pieces of a bell 03:49	buy track
6.	docile cobras 10:17	buy track
7.	the innocent eyes of other systems 03:11	buy track
8.	R 04:07	buy track
9.	gorillas in the zoo 07:28	buy track

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From Flower Room Records:

Jeremy Hurewitz's intuitively original, transcendental work as rootless initially crossed our path through cosmic-yet-earthbound instrumental acoustic guitar tapes on two of our favorite labels, Cabin Floor Esoterica and Aural Canyon. Sensing a kinship in sound, we connected online and linked up for a joint rootless & Starbirthed tour across the northeastern US in summer 2019. It was between soundcheck and set on the second day of our tour together that Jeremy recounted to us the fascinating details of the rootless album he worked on before his recent move from Los Angeles to New York.

Recorded April 2019 in the LA studio of sculptor Michael Todd, the two-day session found Jeremy’s double-tracked guitar compositions and improvisations meeting the inspired multi-instrumental expression of Mexican musician and folklorist Luís Pérez Ixoneztli. Overseer of a collection of priceless, one-of-a-kind, indigenous instruments from Mesoamerica (many of them pre-Colombian), Luís Pérez’s deep understanding and reverence for these instruments is apparent in his approach to the music. The recording process for each track began with Jeremy’s stunningly evocative widescreen fingerstyle acoustic guitar, after which Luís Pérez would listen, consider, and then visit his treasure trove of instruments, returning with several (or many) to contribute to the track. From ocarinas and small whistles that can resemble forest sounds (“peculiar travel suggestions”) to dried cocoon shells strung together and used as shakers, to clay flutes that are possibly over a thousand years old (“silence has a sound”), Luís Pérez’s contributions were as spiritual as they were grounded in musical technique. Befitting Jeremy’s own experimental, avant-garde approach, some of these contributions moved beyond ancient folk instruments, such as simply pouring water in a tub (on “shared consciousness”) or Shamanic breathing (“gorillas in the zoo”).

Naturally, upon hearing Jeremy’s account of the session we couldn’t wait to hear the results. Still, pressing play on the private stream a few weeks later, we could hardly believe the songs and sounds that emerged - existing in form far beyond what our imaginations could conjure. Jeremy’s instrumentals create entire worlds, lucid visualizations and emotions colored in perfect detail by the singular presence of Luís Pérez Ixoneztli. Here, rootless has produced an album in perfect harmony with the spiritual and sonic blueprint that Flower Room has articulated across 50+ releases, and this represents a monumental moment for an imprint created solely as a private press label for our own in-house work. For the first time, we welcome a new voice, vision, and source of expression to the Flower Room family, and are proud and ecstatic to present the wholly original melding music of this most high collaboration: rootless’ vinyl debut, docile cobras.

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released August 21, 2020

rootless is Jeremy Hurewitz (guitar)

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Luís Pérez Ixoneztli: voice, Mesoamerican wind instruments & percussion
produced by Jesse Peterson
mixed by Conrad Burnham
mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri
piano on "peculiar travel suggestions" by Jesse Peterson

cover art by Ash Brooks

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