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ABOUT PORTRAIT
Here we veer into more eclectic territory. The definitive version of this, released 3-28-2020. Musical invocations, soundscapes, and sonic tapestries woven in with an assortment of songs, with no stylistic theme except to flow like a good set of overnight left of the dial FM radio. Psychedelic guitar, Native flute, slammin’ beats, unexpected free jazz and soft acoustic moments; it’s a spicy dish of exotic food. The cover is an amazing painting by Renee Boschert. From the first time I saw it, I recognized it as what the goings on in my head would look like painted onto canvas. I hope it carries something beautiful to you in with the notes and beats. An artist’s job is to get what’s in them out so others can find the soundtracks to their moments, so here is a self portrait in words and music. I just hope this work finds the ears that need it. ~Scott
1. Out Of The Way
(Electric guitar, drums, old Gibson EB3 bass)
Improvised in layers, head empty, staying out of the way. Has some sliding feedback on the guitar, something I love that works when I just let it. I don’t use an ebow or pedal; it’s a dance with the sound in the moment and a prayer for That Beyond to come dance in the music and be with us.
2. Self Portrait
(“The Bean” electric guitar, African djembe, drums, Native flute, shaker, acoustic bass, piano, voice)
Every artist should try one, but I don’t paint canvas - I paint silence.
3. Half My Life Spent Dancing Like a Leaf On The Pavement… Now All I Want Is The Will Of God
(TR505 drum machine, “The Bean” electric guitar, Olympia acoustic bass, piano)
A musical mantra. A meditation on submission to be how it feels most naturally to be and work things out from there, embracing the seed you are and not lamenting the tree you’re not. I am this, I’ll be this; now we try again.
4. Beauty Without The Beast
(TR505, acoustic bass, piano, dulcimer)
A song about trying to keep the dark side of all you see from shadowing the light. We can’t control our thoughts, but you can understand them and let much of them go. "Ignorance is bliss for to understand at all / Is to see the seeds of spring but feel the chill of fall."
5. Song For Suki
(Drums, bass, acoustic guitar)
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6. Goodbye, Michael
(Bozouki, Ventura Barney Kessel hollow body electric guitar, bass, drum machine)
A piece I wrote after the death of a great but tragic guitar player friend. I knew his shadow at the end but I feel I met the man on an old album where I picked up sliding notes into feedback. When he died I wrote this for him. For the melody & lead, I just plugged in and it all happened in one take. Feedback is a spiritual thing to me, a cry of universal vibration through my hands & strings. Here I cry for Michael.
7. Requiem For The River (Meditation On The Blanco)
(Drums, piano, river)
Improvisation on piano around 2004 with an old drum track recorded in 1995 by Jim Erickson dubbed in underneath it. I love how it synchs in spots and comes apart, in a flow, like lives and the river along the banks. Jim passed away in 2011 and in 2015 the Blanco swept away everything along its banks - the ancient cypress trees, some of the place this was recorded in, the piano, and lives. It was renamed after that and is now a meditation on loss.
8. Rest From The Rain
(TR505, resonator guitar, voice, small clay hand drum)
What’s it like to be inspired in the moment and creating sounds and melodies and structure out of that feeling? I tried to capture the moment, and it was framed by its environment - a van in a rest area in the rain on a road trip. Written & recorded Dec. 29, 2014 on I-10 Florida mile marker 162.
9. I Will Sit In This Good Space and Cultivate My Spiritual Garden
(Drums, piano)
Trying to connect the ether to the hands via the soul in a moment.
Recorded at Luka’s Place (house sitting by the river, Wimberley TX) around 2006 (2,3,4,7,9); Woodshed Studio in San Marcos, TX 2011 or so (5 – thanks to engineer Russell Tanner), a little shack in the woods called Organic Sound sometime between 2003 and 2007 (1), the back room of a music shop around 2005 (6), and in a 1983 Ford Econoline van in a rest area along I-35 maybe 2016 (8).
Written, performed & produced by S. Beckwith All songs Parking Lot Music / BMI, c 2016