Freedman Jean Martin, Justin Haynes

- Composer(s): Myk Freedman
- Performer(s): Jean Martin, Justin Haynes
Haynes and Martin have succeeded in compounding magic with more magic and opening a sunny space for all. — Exclaim!, Canada
Simply gorgeous — Panpot, Québec
When all is said and done, maybe what we really want from a record is to witness creativity. To be led into a room where musicians take on their instruments. If you lean in and hear breathing and rustling, if you notice that the instrument — even a little uke — is fighting back, it’s a good thing. These are signs of life. And if music gets prized from old pieces of wood and string before your eyes, it’s a prize to treasure. All you’ll hear on this recording is a ukulele and a suitcase. But amazingly, paradoxically, that confining element is its liberation, and ours. Lovely, lyrical moments are everywhere. Time gets established in subtle ways, and subtly falls away. Geographies pass. We leave the streets for the dunes. Melodies expand and contract. If there was once a wall of sound, then this disc is a window. Open it and enjoy a new view.
- Barnyard Records
- BR 0306 / 2008
- UPC/EAN 777320145925
- Total duration: 61:28
- 1Naked in the River, 3:00
- 2Sittin’ in a Puddle, 3:13
- 3
- 4Bookends, 4:54
- 5Clock Watchers, 3:24
- 6So Cry, 2:51
- 7Unnameable Dance, 3:29
- 8
- 9
- 10I’m OK if You’re OK, 1:55
- 11Seven, 4:24
- 12
- 13
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- 15Pretty Ugly, 4:53
- 16So Cry, 3:40
- 17Love Boat of Love, 4:04

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CD 2BR 0306CAD 16.95
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