K. Records
2003
Songs
About This Album
"Let's make a song on the eight-track tonight," sing Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Ginger Brooks Takahashi on "Oh! September," the final song on Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project. It's a lyric that makes perfect sense, considering their friendship and the circumstances surrounding this album: the pair decided to hole up in a secluded house in the Blue Ridge Mountains for a month and write and record songs about their experience. Using a Tascam four-track and mini-disc recorder, along with a motley array of instruments including steel drum, accordion, zither, and banjo, they made the album into a working holiday. The emphasis is on "holiday" instead of work, though; the chirping birds, lonesome train whistles, and buzzing insects that pop up throughout Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project make it feel like a collection of audio postcards from Takahashi and Mirah's vacation. Not surprisingly, the album has more than a little in common with Mirah's You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This and Advisory Committee, seamlessly fusing spirituality, sensuality, and nature into beautifully vulnerable, confessional music, but Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project is on a smaller scale.
Track List (try tracks 1,8,11 and 13)

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