Label: Western Vinyl
Catalog #: WEST 051
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: February 12, 2008
Genre: Rock, Country, Folk
Style: Acoustic, Neo-Classical, Experimental
Quality: FLAC, CUE, LOG
Size: 282 Mb
Tracklist:
1 San Solomon (3:43)
2 Lament (3:35)
3 The Summer (3:56)
4 The Winter (5:51)
5 Greyish Tapering Ash (3:41)
6 Baleen Morning (3:44)
7 Barefoot Pilgrims (4:53)
8 Context (4:02)
9 Process (6:20)
10 Divisadero (3:09)
11 Limmat (3:22)
12 Theme No. 1 (5:11)
13 Windansea (3:56)
14 San Solomon (Reprise) (3:30)
The 14 tracks on Rivers Arms, the second album from twenty-something Texas duo Balmorhea, sound much like the band's list of influences probably reads. For that matter, such a strong, select lexicon could be a subset of most 2007 bands making instrumental music with folk, classical, jazz, and 20th-century classical inspirations: There are the swells of Stravinsky, the mercurial keyboard majesty of Debussy, the triad-based romanticism of Arvo Pärt, the clangorous sensuality of Keith Jarrett, the electronics-meet-acoustics approach of Max Richter, and the beaming melodic flashes of the Takoma Records cartel (from John Fahey to George Winston, mind you).
