The Tortoise, by Nat Evans

The Tortoise

by Nat Evans

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1.	The Pact with Coyote in the Boulder Field 14:04	info
2.	Meeting 07:55	info
3.	Shallow Notion of Progress 03:29	info
4.	Reunion 12:10	info
5.	No Leaving, No Returning 06:27	info
6.	Carolyn Chen - The woods are miles to sleep to sleep 06:43	info
7.	Scott Worthington - With No Surroundings There Can Be No Path 10:33	info
8.	Andrew Tholl - Hi / Hey 08:06	info
9.	Brenna Noonan - The Marvelous Structure of the Existing World 04:34	info
10.	Chris Kallmyer - muffled by clouds, distant sea breaking 04:46	info
11.	Scott Unrein - Nacre 11:56	info
12.	Hanna Benn - Pedestrian 03:31	info
13.	John Teske - getting there 06:49	info

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In the summer of 2014, composer and sound artist Nat Evans spent five months hiking the 2,600 mile Pacific Crest Trail writing music and making hundreds of field recordings in a project called The Tortoise. Along the way he sent SD cards filled with field recordings to a series of composers who created works responding to the recordings made nearby where they lived. Those works were posted online all summer so that people could hear how the sound of the trail changed as Evans moved northward, and how different people respond to their landscapes. Upon his return Evans recorded his own works from his long walk. This album features those works, as well as the pieces by his collaborators.

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released August 19, 2015

Most of the composers played the instruments in their pieces themselves, unless otherwise noted. The personnel for Evans' pieces are Neil Welch, saxophone, Evan Smith, bass clarinet, John Teske, bass and Nat Evans on percussion and shruti box.

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Experimental music from the Pacific Northwest

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