January 24 street date. River Lea Records presents "Salt River", the label-debut from London-based Vermont-native, Sam Amidon. As part of a decades-long quest to recontextualize what it means to sing folk songs or make folk music, Amidon collaborated with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel to reinterpret and regenerate ten chosen songs. The music ranges from traditional Appalachian ballad "Golden Willow Tree" to a radical reimagining of Lou Reed's "Big Sky", and was recorded by Amidon, Gendel, and percussionist Philippe Melanson during sessions at Gendel's home in Los Angeles. As Amidon himself describes, "this album is a campfire, but the campfire is around Sam Gendel's synthesizer. Or maybe it's a journey through the corridors of my memory, if my memory was transplanted into Sam and Phil's dreams". Taken together, these 10 songs feel like a shared playground of discovery, with Amidon finding new ways for old songs to exist in the company of his two unfettered collaborators.
January 24 street date. River Lea Records presents "Salt River", the label-debut from London-based Vermont-native, Sam Amidon. As part of a decades-long quest to recontextualize what it means to sing folk songs or make folk music, Amidon collaborated with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel to reinterpret and regenerate ten chosen songs. The music ranges from traditional Appalachian ballad "Golden Willow Tree" to a radical reimagining of Lou Reed's "Big Sky", and was recorded by Amidon, Gendel, and percussionist Philippe Melanson during sessions at Gendel's home in Los Angeles. As Amidon himself describes, "this album is a campfire, but the campfire is around Sam Gendel's synthesizer. Or maybe it's a journey through the corridors of my memory, if my memory was transplanted into Sam and Phil's dreams". Taken together, these 10 songs feel like a shared playground of discovery, with Amidon finding new ways for old songs to exist in the company of his two unfettered collaborators.
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