{"id":396,"date":"2013-06-02T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/?p=396"},"modified":"2013-06-03T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:25:31","slug":"regarding-the-shortness-of-your-breath-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/regarding-the-shortness-of-your-breath-en\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Regarding the shortness of your breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-389\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Full-CD_outside\" src=\"http:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Full-CD_outside-300x132.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Full-CD_outside-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Full-CD_outside-1024x452.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Full-CD_outside-210x92.jpg 210w, https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Full-CD_outside.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong>BD Harrington\u2019s<\/strong> debut album <i>The Kid Strays<\/i>, released in France in 2010, garnered much critical acclaim in that country. \u00a0This follow-up album \u2018<i>Regarding the Shortness of Your Breath\u2019<\/i> (Travelling Music) is an unflinching exploration of impending loss. It is an album that confronts the creeping sense of the inevitable, a prelude to the real harsh business of grieving. Death, dissolution, suffering, acceptance, and grace\u2013 these themes are sifted through in minute detail and with considerable maturity, inducing a shiver of strangeness. Intimate and poetic with exquisitely crafted lyrics, which makes sense coming from a man who earned his degree in Creative Writing. Every song was intentionally written in the darkest hours, inspired by one of his heroes, Ingmar Bergman, who called this time \u2018the Hour of the Wolf\u2019, the hour between midnight and dawn. \u201cIt is the hour when most people die. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear, when ghosts and demons are most powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has a richer, deeper sound than its stripped-back lo-fi predecessor. <strong>BD Harrington<\/strong>\u2019s piano, guitar and voice are augmented by pedal steel, stand-up bass and <strong>Don Kerr<\/strong>\u2019s inimitable percussion and cello. From the plaintive lament of \u2018New Skin\u2019 (\u201cthe light will part the flesh and leave every door ajar, and I won\u2019t wonder where you\u2019ve been, I won\u2019t wonder where you are\u201d) to the vertiginous, hallucinatory \u2018Mariella\u2019 (\u201cbring your soft lips down and kiss my new concussion\u201d) <i>\u2018Regarding the Shortness of Your Breath\u2019<\/i>\u00a0 is haunting, cogent and solidifies BD Harrington\u2019s unique voice and establishes him as an emerging songwriter of note.<\/p>\n<p>Co-produced with <strong>Don Kerr<\/strong> (RonSexsmith), and recorded during a week-long snowstorm in mid-winter at The Gas Station Studios, located on an island in Toronto harbour. \u00a0Mixed by Don Kerr at The Rooster, and mastered by <strong>Steve Rooke at Abbey Road.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 410px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=1056693094\/size=grande3\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=ae260a\/\" height=\"410\" width=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BD-Harrington-MOJO-review.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-409\" alt=\"BD Harrington MOJO review\" src=\"http:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BD-Harrington-MOJO-review.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BD-Harrington-MOJO-review.jpg 448w, https:\/\/travellingmusic.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/BD-Harrington-MOJO-review-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>And <strong>translated<\/strong> from french:<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0(&#8230;) The result is a work of rare intensity, a kind of dark folk where the piano, guitar and voice are highlighted among the pedal steel, bass, cello or percussion of Don Kerr, who co-produced \u00ab\u00a0Regarding the Shortness of Your Breath\u00a0\u00bb. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zicazic.com\/zicazine\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=10608\" target=\"_blank\">ZICAZIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Impressive and solemn, this album doesn&rsquo;t seem affected by time. \u00ab\u00a0Regarding the Your Shortness of Breath\u00a0\u00bbseems simple and naked but listening carefully we discover wonderful arrangements that transcend the emotion therein. BD Harrington has the wisdom of those who lived intensively. Chapeau! \u00a0\u00bb\u00a0QUAI BACO<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0(&#8230;) This is beautiful, very beautiful, some light, some shadows, some ghosts, it is pure and haunted music\u00a0from BD Harrington.\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.calameo.com\/read\/002054859305dedbd3f1a\" target=\"_blank\">CAFZIC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BD Harrington\u2019s debut album The Kid Strays, released in France in 2010, garnered much critical acclaim in that country. \u00a0This follow-up album \u2018Regarding the Shortness of Your Breath\u2019 (Travelling Music) is an unflinching exploration of impending loss. 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