The Pictures, by Dave Harrington

The Pictures

by Dave Harrington

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The Pictures cassette tape — duplicated in Los Angeles and featuring alternative cover art of Dave in his home studio.

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1.	I'm Not a Dream 02:09	buy track
2.	And I Have a Message 02:19	buy track
3.	Excess Vision 02:13	buy track
4.	Flowershop 02:33	buy track
5.	Talisman 02:19	buy track
6.	Terrible Magicians 01:50	buy track
7.	For Some Moments in Life, There Are No Words 02:10	buy track
8.	The Pictures 01:19	buy track
9.	Love of The Game 02:40	buy track
10.	My Father's Name 02:05	buy track
11.	Such an Exciting Day 03:07	buy track
12.	They Cast a Spell on Him and Made Him Blind 01:18	buy track
13.	Something that Sparkles 01:59	buy track
14.	I Hope That He's Listening 01:28	buy track
15.	I Think I Will, Stay Here 01:29	buy track
16.	Dancing Bear 03:27	buy track
17.	Your Best Bet 00:32	buy track
18.	If You Build It 01:31	buy track
19.	Electricity Before the Kite 01:16	buy track
20.	The Ice in My Drink 03:07	buy track
21.	Vertigo Flutes 02:08	buy track
22.	Why Did They Take Their Pictures Down? 02:38	buy track
23.	Long Drive to The End 02:55	buy track
24.	In a Weary World 01:28	buy track
25.	We Are the Dreamers of Dreams 02:38	buy track
26.	Slow Standard 03:46	buy track
27.	So Shines a Good Deed 02:37	buy track

about

“The Pictures” is the most sprawling, and the most personal, album Dave Harrington has ever made. It’s a love letter to the cinema. It’s a showcase for his eclectic taste. It’s a quiet nod to his father. It’s a love song to his family. It’s a heady journey through abstraction and back.

Harrington plays every instrument on the album, from his usual guitar (sometimes warped and twisted, and sometimes gently strummed or plucked in earnest and on-the-sleeve homage to the heroes—maybe Bill Frisell or Jerry Garcia here and there) in addition to a sprawling collection of percussion, drums, upright bass, keyboards, and his fretless Turkish banjo. The results are pushed through Harrington’s 21st Century Schizoid Teo Macero post production approach, leading to a collection of music that is equal parts frenetic beat-dub mixtape and open hearted “plays for the lovers” ballads.

Ghosts of film and television past whisper through these tapestries offering notes to loved ones, haiku-hymns for lost ones, and meditations on what it all might mean if we put it together. But, for some moments in life there are no words—so we have the pictures.

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released October 20, 2023

Dave Harrington - guitar, electronics, pedal steel guitar, acoustic and electric bass, piano, organ, Moog, fender Rhodes, mellotron, synthesizers, drums, percussion, congas, çümbüs, bamboo flute

Horn section on “The Ice in My Drink”: Steven Bernstein, Stuart Bogie, Doug Wieselman, Ben Goldberg, Briggan Krauss

All music composed, produced and mixed by Dave Harrington

Mastered by Yousef El-Magharbel.

MINARET RECORDS 2023

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Dave Harrington Group Los Angeles, California

Dave Harrington is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, half of DARKSIDE, and has played with Ilhan Ersahin’s IstanbulSessions, Innov Gnawa, Nels Cline, Miho Hatori, Chet Faker, Yuka Honda, Joe Russo, Mauro Refosco, Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist), Brian Chase(YYYs), The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kimbra, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marshall Allen&The Sun Ra Arkestra, Angel Deradoorian... ... more

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