1961, by Soul-Junk

1961

by Soul-Junk

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Geir Arne Bunde Soul Junk has returned to their roots with their latest albums.

grandeped Soul-junk returns to the weird world of their unique brand of indie rock. Different but familiar at the same time. Favorite track: 121 Ascension.

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	1.	120 Soujouk Of Lebanon 04:00
	2.	121 Ascension 03:12
	3.	122 Archaeopteryx 02:55
	4.	123 Malta Or Ever 02:37
	5.	124 Swallowed Us Alive 03:23
	6.	125 Salabanana 04:19
	7.	126 Those Who Dream 02:26
	8.	127 Arrows 02:14
	9.	128 Soupmog 04:04
	10.	129 Grass Grows On The Rooftops 02:13
	11.	130 Uranusunaru 04:00
	12.	131 Song Of The Weaned Child 04:29
	13.	132 A Unicycle Makes It OK 03:31
	14.	133 Oil Beard 05:34
	15.	134 You From Zion 03:53
	16.	135 Sanddunes Before Sundown 06:54

about

If '1960' was a return to detuned stegosaurus rock form (after about 10 years of jeepbleeps and noise and smaller-crew productions), '1961' is a return to core-band archaeopteryx rock form. Indeed, it’s harder to get more constant than your own family, and this is family-band brand Soul-Junk through and through. Jon is back (bass), brother Brian is now in the mix (guitar/keys), and drumming son Jude and singing/percussing daughter Mila (at the tender ages of twelve and five respectively) form the core. With two-fifths of the band's ages not even adding to 18, there's a nice concentrated swoop at tapping into the clanking naive carbonation of some of Soul-Junk's early 90s hit records like '1950' and '1951'.

Glen Galaxy has been singing words from the Bible for almost 18 years, but 1961's lyrics are exclusively from the ancient words of pilgrimage, struggle, comfort, hope and joy commonly known as the “Songs of Ascent”. Guitars, bass, and drums all wrapped in backbeat thump and skunk send up beguiling, stone-skipping themes. There is, in classic Soul-Junk style, an epic arch to the entire record, but of particular note is the movement from psalms 125 through 127, where it moves from something Glen might have written as a '90s lazy-shaker Trumans Water number...to some dollar-store Lee Hazelwood...to a pummeling USAisamonster-ish jam about good sleep.

That the “Songs of Ascent” have served as the comforting accompaniment to Glen’s wife’s eventual triumph over cancer is especially poignant. Cathleen, Glen’s bride of nineteen years, is now healthy and whole. His family’s sojourn through the valley of the shadow of death has been its own song of ascent; ascent into deeper confidence in just how completely they are cared for. '1961' is a ultimately a document of wonder and raw "those-who-dream" celebration.

credits

released April 3, 2012

Glen - Guitar, Voice, Melotron, Bouzuki-Gamelan
Jude - Drums
Jon - Bass
Brian - Guitar, Keys
Milan - Voice, Percussion

Kate Hatmaker - violin on 125
Produced by Brent Asbury (also played drums on 133)
Recorded at Singing Serpent San Diego
127 and 128 mixed by Rafter Roberts
Mastered By Rafter and Jim Garry
Art by Jonathan with collages by Glen and photos by Cathleen
James Navarro Master-Prep

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1961

Apr 2012
1960

Aug 2009
1959

Jul 2007
1958

Sep 2003

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