Tender Carpenter EP, by Casey Hale

Tender Carpenter EP

by Casey Hale

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flatz357 Jolting and compelling, "Tender Carpenter" overlays unearthed Emily Dickinson poems on top of genre-breaking microtonal music that can alternately feel like jazz, prog rock, wandering Romani guitar or the "Eraserhead" soundtrack. I'm impressed—and hooked! Favorite track: troughs beside.

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1.	all my life 04:45	buy track
2.	troughs beside 02:26	buy track
3.	the simple lid 02:56	buy track
4.	tender carpenter 02:18	buy track
5.	nail it down 04:49	buy track

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Tender Carpenter is a mixed-genre EP that explores queer desire by playing with the boundaries of style and the gendered voice, acoustic and synthetic, surface and subtext. The music uses microtonality as a disorientation device, recorded with electric guitar in 19-tone equal temperament, and the tracks hybridize rock, jazz and electronic influences, situating spoken and sung fragments from an 'envelope poem' by Emily Dickinson.

A not admitting
of the Wound
Until it grew so
wide
That all my
Life had Entered it
And there
were troughs
beside -
was space
room -
A closing of the
simple lid that
opened to the sun
Until the tender
Carpenter...
nail
it down -

- from Emily Dickinson, A 105a, Envelope Poems, eds. Jen Bervin and Marta Werner, New York: New Directions, 2016

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released May 5, 2023

Electric guitar in 19-tone equal temperament by Metatonal Music.
Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Casey Hale, 2021-23.

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Casey Hale Bristol, UK

I am a composer, producer guitarist and researcher living in Bristol, UK. I have two decades experience writing concert works for new music soloists and ensembles, with a recent turn to studio-based production. My research brings together music theory, perception/cognition and cultural studies. For more info, visit caseyhalemusic.com. ... more

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