This song is about my dad and his time growing up in the coal mining town of Pikeville, KY. The voice on the song is a taped conversation I had with him. I tried to structure it as the fleeting moments of someone thinking back on their whole life, the sounds he may have recalled.
from
Transmissions,
released February 4, 2020
Samuel Goff - Turntables, Field Recordings, Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Electronics, Vocals, Piano, Found Objects
Recorded April 7, 2018 at Etching Tin Studios in Richmond, VA.
Dedicated to Fred Goff
The following samples were used for this recording...
Rev. Crenshaw And The Congregation Of New Brown's Chapel, Memphis - "Living Hymn And Prayer" from the album "Roots Of The Blues" 1977, New World Records
Rev. J.M. Gates And Congregation - "Dry Bones" from the album "Jazz, Vol. 1 : The South." 1950, Folkways Records
The Coon Creek Girls - "Banjo Pickin' Girl" from the album "Going Down The Valley:Vocal And Instrumental Styles in Folk Music From The South" 1977, New World Records
Krzysztof Penderecki - "Canticum Canticorum Salomonis" from the album "Canticum Canticorum Salomonis / Als Jacob Erwachte / Threnos / De Natura Sonoris Nr. 1" 1976, EMI Records
Charles M. Bogert - "Introduction To Mating Calls" from the album "Sounds Of North American Frogs" 1957 Folkways Records
Peter Kilham And Alfred L. Hawkes - "Untitled" from the album "Songs Of The Forest" 1964, Droll Yankees Recordings