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Way Forth Vinyl Record

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Way Forth Vinyl Record

$42.49$37.99
For a limited time only
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The Way Forth, a new folk opera from Rachel Grimes, encompasses lush layers of voices and orchestrations in an experiential, non-linear investigation highlighting perspectives of Kentucky women from 1775 to today. Inspired by a treasure-trove of family documents, photos, and letters spanning several generations, Grimes began in 2016 to research some of the more vexing questions that came to the surface about these people, places, and events. Fueled by intuition, travel to visit family, photographing, and filming present day rural Kentucky life, the research led to many more questions: What is missing? What is not being said here? What did she really think and feel? Primary historical accounts routinely glossed over people without titles or voting rights, and dehumanized most others by referring to them as objects of desire, savages, or slaves. Further examination formed a framework for trying to reconcile her state's history and how it relates to the westward expansion and settlement of the United States and ultimately how an era of domination, denial, and pain is reflected in the complex culture of today. The songs that make up The Way Forth weave back in time through a postcard, a personal account of a long life on a farm, traces of folk tunes, names, places, and rivers, all woven into an emotional fabric of yearning, nostalgia, grief, and the rich intimacies of everyday life. Initially solo voices are heard above vivid orchestrations, expanding with the choral voices of the community through fragments of traditional church music and popular tunes. The scope widens to include a modern male narrator's reflections on a place battered by greed, civil war, bigotry, and the exploitation of natural resources. Through music, voice, and film, The Way Forth honors the emotional legacy of the silenced, the holistic, the beauty in quotidian life, and explores the eternal grace and redemption of time, as symbolized by the great Dix and Kentucky Rivers.

Protection
Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.

Packaging
All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

UPC656605329413
Released2019/11/01
StylesSpoken Word, Soundtrack, Post-Modern, Opera, Dialogue, Contemporary, Bluegrass, Appalachian Music, Nu Age, Compositional Ambient
Record Label Amped, Temporary Residence Limited, Mossgrove Music
Weight1.08 lb
Dimensions0.42" x 12.34" x 12.31"
Categories
A1Get Ahold of Me
A2Postcard From Pauline
A3Patsy
A4Sisterhood Of Man
B5Red House School
B6The Hysterical Society
B7Nowhere On Earth
B8There Is No Other
C9The Spells
C10Fontaine Ferry
C11For So Long
C12Dix River Doxology
C13Dolly
C14Bill Of Sale
D15End Of Dominion
D16Sara
D17A New Land

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