Marginalia Suburbia, by Jim Griffin

Marginalia Suburbia

by Jim Griffin

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Nickie Harte Kelly I have to start by saying that I just love this release. It is ambient, with field recordings; wistful, and nostalgic somehow. This is lysergic and psilocybic, brooding and eerie, charming and delicate. At times, you feel as if you are walking through quiet streets and lanes, with stray sounds coming from open windows and simultaneously, from both the natural and hushed outdoor human worlds about you. Favorite track: Autumn Leaves in Winter.

Weirdo Shrine A righteoous trip. Peaceful headmusic. Very important stuff. Favorite track: Wood Pigeons Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

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	1.	Wood Pigeons Don't Kill People, People Kill People 04:53
	2.	Peace in C 03:09
	3.	All Hail Mighty Kalimba! 01:31
	4.	Brush with Doom 03:49
	5.	The Gulls Hiss by my Window 06:15
	6.	Dixieland Crows 03:28
	7.	Short Wave Rain 04:10
	8.	Autumn Leaves in Winter 05:17
	9.	Fireside Flutter 03:06
	10.	Hypno-Cat versus The Burren Birds 05:30
	11.	Long Wave Forms 04:53

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This album occupies a place somewhere between the urban and the rural. In Ireland, it’s never too hard to get from one to the other. Dig a flowerbed, find an old horseshoe. Get chatting to a neighbour, find a connection to your Granny’s people. Drive for half an hour and visit the neolithic tombs of The Burren, then back home for a cup of tea in the back garden. Or around the kitchen table if the day is soft.

And the days are often soft here in my hometown. A city actually (but only by Irish standards), Limerick sits wistfully at the mouth of the Shannon River. Her sinewy tidal estuary loops through our centre and gently blurs the edges between countryside, street, and suburb. It’s suburbia where you’ll find me, usually. Working a small garden as if it were the Bull McCabe’s field. Hoovering the house like a demon, cursing the tyranny of crackers. Feeding a cat who flatly refuses to love me like she should. Pretending we need milk so I can pop into town to walk by the waterfront.
And occasionally, sometimes stealthily, I retreat to the attic and noodle fragments of folky tunes on a loyal and sympathetic acoustic guitar. Birdsong bleeding onto the tape if it’s early morning. The neighbour’s dog barking at passers-by, creeping into the mix at night. Capturing the happy accidents that might get recorded from time to time, in the margins of the day.

Jim Griffin (November 2022)
therangerandthecleric.bandcamp.com

Instruments used in the making of this album include:
Acoustic:
Freshman Acoustic 6-string Guitar
Pentatonic Glockenspiel (in D)
Kalimba (in C major)
Melodica
Sleigh Bells
Electronic:
Ditto Looperx2 by TC Electronics
Mel 9 Tape Relay Machine by Electro-Harmonix
Field Recordings, sound samples and old tapes
Redtron SE by Artifake Labs
Hexagon Sky, Room Piano and Drone Piano by Samplescience

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released October 26, 2023

Performed and recorded by Jim Griffin on dates between June 2021 and May 2022
Photography by Brendan Gleeson, PPAI
Mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering, Limerick, Ireland
Artwork and design by Jim Griffin.

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