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THISCLOSE

by Janet Feder

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    Paco Proano is a Denver based multi-media, visual and sound artist. Inspired by the gestures, punctuations and haunting washes of sound of Janet Feder’s music, Proano fuses complex layers of the clean and crisp, linear quality of the silkscreen process together with the more improvisatory nature of drips, splashes, and sketches using paint and mixed media.

    Paco has exhibited and performed for the past decade under a few New Media project monikers, with domestic shows at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Denver, +Plus Gallery, RMCAD, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA), CURRENTS, FIVA, and SHARE in New York City. Visual work has also been exhibited alongside Ron English, Futura 2000, Shepard Fairey, BAST, FAILE, Swoon, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring. Internationally displays include Japan, Mexico, Ecuador, England and Turkey. Alongside Janet Feder and David Fodel, Paco Proano co-created and curated the New Media festival MEDIALIVE at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and drove Object+Thought (O+T), a promoter of New Media events, installation and performance.

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    Lyrics…..


    Crows

    What a day
    crows pitch and wheel in the wind
    calling out over and over again
    don’t go there

    Inside silently
    spinning a cocoon
    don’t let summer fail
    don’t murder the moon

    Stop drop and roll
    can’t come close to cure
    what the hell happened here

    Inside silently
    spinning a cocoon
    who let summer fail
    who murdered the moon

    Point and shoot
    fiction falls from the sky
    a murder of crows decides
    who knows why

    You murderous crows
    pick your own bones clean
    I’ve gone left right at the place
    where
    vultures kiss and tell and then they
    throw it all away, throw it all away, throw it all away.


    Ticking Time Bomb

    If I was a doctor - I would cut you open
    take that Ticking Time Bomb
    explode it in the open
    air……between here and
    there…..shield your eyes
    the light is sure to make you cry.

    If I could be you I’d know what to do
    but I am not
    you are you
    at least that much is true
    underneath my pillow
    sewn between the sheets
    there are no more words even when I speak.

    If I was a doctor - I would cut you open
    take that Ticking Time Bomb
    explode it in the open
    air……between here and
    there…..shield your eyes
    the light is sure to make you cry.


    Angles & Exits

    I am where the water lays dawn
    Bittersweet sad sound
    A thousand geese fly and lay still in the night
    And keep going, just keep going
    All angles and easy exits
    This is why we’re here

    You dreamed a parade of ghosts
    Ghosts who missed their train
    Wind blew right thru you gravity knew you
    And brought you back again and again
    Then again, then again
    All angles and easy exits
    This is why you’re here

    To leave is to return
    This perfect dream these open arms
    Past rushing back to me full color memory
    Time goes like crazy and stands still
    All angles and easy exits
    This is why we’re here
    All angles and easy exits
    All angles and easy exits
    You are always near
    You are always near
    You are always n e a r
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about

A genius guitar player with a lyrical heart, an instrumentalist with a compelling voice and a truly original offering, Janet Feder makes the seemingly disparate naturally coexist as she journeys ever more deeply into an aesthetic ideal all her own. Along with a number of close friends, all unique placeholders and pillars of The Denver Sound, Janet expands her musical lexicon while defining an otherwise elusive paradigm. This language is derived from the achievements of folk, jazz, pop, minimalism, classical, and the avant garde – and is simultaneously unmoored from the trappings of any of them.

She cut her baby teeth on folk and rock guitar then polished them with a passion for classical playing. In the early 1990’s Janet broke bad and began preparing her instruments; it’s on the baritone guitar where she most clearly recognized the sound of her own voice. After four critically acclaimed albums she now arrives fully and exquisitely realized in her most seminal work to date: T H I S C L O S E.

Invested in both timeless melody and relentless innovation, she opens T H I S C L O S E with Crows, on which her leaf-in-the-breeze voice is manipulated by analog tape and tubes to drive home hard-earned truths that match her music with often chilling accuracy. Here her prepared baritone electric is supported by Marc Dalio’s waltzing percussion and engineer Mike Yach’s unearthly distorted guitar soloing. While all six instrumentals and three vocal pieces on the album focus on different topics, overall there is a shadow, and deep within it lurks beauty, enlightenment and – especially in the songs – a profound and sometimes disarming honesty.

Thanks to Gus Skinas’ 32 channel Sonoma system, this elegant DSD Pure recording places the listener deeply in Janet’s three dimensional space, her guitar center stage as its own orchestra, surrounded by uniquely handmade, found sounds. The complex technical beauty of the music is matched by the emotional underpinnings of the compositions and improvisations themselves.

“Even though it sounds like me, it's something beyond...and it also feels like an arrival at the culmination of, well, everything that got me here. Previous albums felt like they happened in my head; T H I S C L O S E feels like it emerged from somewhere between my head and my heart. I've never made more intimate music. It's ok by me however it lands for my listeners. I played what I wanted to hear, because I could hear myself more clearly than I was ever able to in the past. And I played what I wanted to play because....I could. It was all part of accepting the invitation, this collaboration, this gift, with Mike and Joe.” (JF)

As for the meaning of T H I S C L O S E, it’s only partially in view. Upon its unexpected plot twist conclusion, the album leaves one with as many questions as answers, and Janet Feder is perfectly fine with that.

credits

released May 15, 2015

JF / baritone guitars, electric guitar, banjo, voice, plucked piano, prepared hammer dulcimer, sounds
Todd Bilsborough / percussion
Kal Cahoone / backing vocal, accordion
Marc Dalio / percussion
Elaine DiFalco / accordion
Mike Fitzmaurice / double bass, bass harmonica
Paul Fowler / piano (inside & out), voice
Mark Harris / bass clarinet
Amy Shelley / percussion
Joe Shepard / studio door
Mike Yach / electric guitar, bass, cymbaled spring

Recording / Mixing: Mike Yach
Produced by: Joe Shepard with Mike Yach and JF
Stereo Mastering: Dominick Maita / Airshow mastering
Surround Mastering / Authoring: Gus Skinas

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A native of Boulder, Colorado Janet Feder is most widely known for pioneering composition for prepared guitar. She has been featured on numerous recordings, radio programs, and film scores. Check her out on NPR:
www.npr.org/2012/07/22/157169369/janet-feder-an-avant-garde-artist-takes-a-real-risk
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