Shale and Sandstone

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 the band's website illustrates this and houses a great archive of songs. South Dakota is an incredible state and deserves to be honored musically 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. 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 in order to go back and offer their pre-Contact ancestors the 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 gets really interesting when the ancient people, upon being presented with the option of being inoculated, turn 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. Gatefold vinyl with artwork from Jesse Moynihan of Make a Rising, and including guest spots from members of Dr. Dog, The Spinto Band and Buried Beds.