From a Fountain

From a Fountain is a beautiful name for all varieties of music by Douglas Kirby. Kirby has been in Philadelphia's National Eye for years and years and continues to collaborate on their recordings.

From a Fountain is from South Dakota, and the United States. A map on fromafountain.com illustrates this and houses a great archive of songs. South Dakota is an incredible state and deserves to be honored musicallly in every way possible.

Shale and Sandstone is the proud release of Park the Van Records. It was recorded in a series of meditations, beginning with piano. A bulk of these seed recordings can also be found at fromafountain.com.

The album visualizes a rogue band of Native Americans, far in the future. Organized in present day and persisting hidden throughout the years, they have waited for the advent of time travel, for togo back and offer their pre-Contact ancestors antibodies to the European diseases that would decimate them. Thus en-strengthened, the Natives would likely be able to withstand the onslaught of the European population and hold on to much of their homeland and identity.

Shale and Sandstone got really interesting when the ancient people, upon being presented with the option of being innoculated, turned it down. This not without much wailing and despairing what was to befall their people. A lost song captures this meeting and lamentation. As the old ones refused the antibodies, the story ends there, for history went on un-changed. The remainder of the album reflects on meeting with the infinite in this way and tries to make sense of their decision.

Shale and Sandstone was recorded with the help of many friends and musicians, such as Nick Krill from The Spinto Band, and often features beautiful singing by the Buried Beds' Eliza Hardy, and also Katie Dill.

Shale & Sandstone is available for your ears on July 27, 2010.

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