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A wonderful collection of amazing songs. Karl Blau continues the light Americana sound of his 2016 album "Introducing Karl Blau". The perfect sound for spring, somewhere between Lambchop and early outlaw country heroes.
Favorite track: Section 11 Police Station #2.
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This is the vinyl version of Love & Harm, a more raw version, created in one stroke from the Unknown studio sessions, with a different song order and mixes (Section 11, Bird in the Hand and Animal Dreams do not appear on Scream Time)
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Great huge thanks to the band, special thanks to Eli Moore, And to these
fine over dub contributors and Kickstarter supporters - couldn’t have done
this without all of you!
Thank you
Calli, Ciel, Poppy, Alexander C., Alex B., Mom and Phil, Max, Ayako, Ariya and Arjuna, Annette, Bret, Denise, Joel, Mark P., Josh C., Todd, Janna, Theo, Thurston, Sommer et al at AMP, Chris I., Jenny A. & Leo, Paul B., Luuk, Doug C., Uly, Saffron, Brooklynd, Eli B., Jack H., Arrington, China, Chip, Sarah F.. Markly, Andrew E,
The recording of Love & Harm was made possible by generous contiibutions from Mike Hore, Miguel Trape, Matthias Rampp, Chip Rountree, Dad’s Diner A Go Go and the Trey Hatch Family.
credits
released March 4, 2022
LOVE & HARM by Karl Blau
Natural Limit written by Zach Miller.
Love and Harmony written by Jennifer Lara.
This band laid the backbones of the tracks live, then added overdubs:
Jon Hyde - pedal steel and baritone guitar, electric guitar, timpani
Aaron Otheim - Ace Tone, Juno, Krumar, midi bells and pipe organ, harpsichord;
Andrew Dorsett - drums
Karl Blau - bass, acoustic and electric guitars, marimba, voice, percussions
With overdubs by
Steve Moore - piano on Gray Area, The Shoreline, Section 11, trombone on The Shoreline, and farfisa on Bill The Beerman
Johanna Kunin - voice as instrument on Gray Area and Section 11, mellotron on Bill The Beerman and flute on The Shoreline
Eddy Blau - trumpet on Bill the Beerman, Love and Harmony, and vocals on Little Pink Maggot
Peter Blau Ormsby - trombone on Bill The Beerman, Natural Limit John Seibold - harmonica on Bill The Beerman, Love and Harmony, Little Pink Maggot, Bird In the Hand, and vocals on Little Pink Maggot
Ben Starner - piano on Love and Harmony, Natural Limit, Animal Dreams
Emily Zeitlyn - vocal on The Reins
Jacob Navarro - effected electric guitar on Natural Limit, electric guitar on animal dreams
Abby Santaurian - vibraphone on Love and Harmony
Abigail Ormsby, Gregory Blau Ormsby, Mia Starner - vocals on Philadelphia
Poppy Jean Blau - bum-bums on Natural Limit
Midnight Choir on Philadelphia - Darrin Matthies, Scott Summers,
Seth Raymond, Holly Varah, Nate Ashley, Rachel Zeile, Emily Madden, Andrea Matthies. Paul Benson - amplifier swivel for synth on Section 11.
Engineering and general help from Nicholas Wilbur; additional engineering by
Alex Heubel; Dave Matthies - tape op for “Midnight Choir”; additional tape op from
Jon Hyde. Natural Limit and Philiadelphia mixed by Chet Delcampo at Hong Kong Stingray, Philadelphia. The Reins and Gray area mixed by Todd Erk at Sparkle Bones. Additional mixing at Sparkle Bones, Philadelphia and Unknown, Anacortes, WA.
These records are all over the place. My latest studio record Love & Harm consists of a modern country rock sound featuring
the pedal steel of Jon Hyde (Introducing) and amazing players you'd recognize from playing on stage with me. Living in Germantown, Philadlephia, started a recording project called Opal Eskar, check that out too....more
This is recording project I got into a few years ago with Chet Delcampo and John "Heyward" Howkins and featuring Charlie Hall on drums and Robbie Bennett on keyboards. Karl Blau