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EZRA FEINBERG: acoustic and electric guitars, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, piano, synthesizers
TIM GREEN: synthesizers, vibraphone, acoustic and electric guitars
DIEGO GONZALEZ: bass
JOHN McENTIRE: drums
MANDY GREEN: vocals
APRIL HALEY: vocals
JONAS REINHARDT: Arp Odyssey
ROBBIE LEE: flute, recorder
JOHN THAYER: percussion
CHUCK JOHNSON: pedal steel

Recorded in 2018 and 2019 at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA and at Thump Studios in Brooklyn, NY
Produced by Tim Green, John Thayer, and Ezra Feinberg
Cover design by Daniel Murphy

Much love to friends and family near and far for their help and support in the making of this record, with special thanks to my wife, Jessie Sayward Bright, who, without playing a note, has done so much to bring this music into the world.

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Over the space of this album, a slow and patient unfolding occurs. Strings are able to breathe, finding the space they need to move, although their movements are lurching, clunky, and convulsive. Seabuckthorn illuminates the distance – a family, a time spent together, and a beautiful summer. It has the feel of old European adventures and trips to glorious cities, markets, churchyards, and yawning fields, with a population yet to face the music of climate change or even a World War.

Years erode the features, and a scattering of distortion eats away at the music. The year in question has faded away, and time has gone way beyond evening or dusk, but Seabuckthorn brings it back and makes it relevant once again. The music is late and so is the hour, but even as the light dims, a beautiful, rusty afterglow is left behind, a dull gleam coming from a King’s crown.
Credits
Bowed/plucked prepared guitars, effects and cymbals by Andy Cartwright
Mastered by James Plotkin
Digital cover photo by Andy Cartwright

Released by Fluid Audio
CD Print design by Craig Tattersall
CD Book design by Mikula Lullwitz
CD Packaging design by Daniel Crossley

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We are extremely happy to introduce you to Møzaika's first full-length record titled “Silver Tide”. Its healing music has been a constant companion to us over the past two years. 2020 finally seems to be the right time to share it with the world. It is a wonderful album to be listened to as a whole - a continuous piece of music with many exciting turns showing the artist's close connection to nature as well as a deep knowledge of his musical ancestry.

“Dive in feeling good - emerge feeling better!”

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Balafon Sketches began as a series of live jams in Cumbria. Percussionist and producer Contours & instrument builder, musician, painter and ceramicist Seth Sutton experimented with balafons and a gamelan alongside Sutton’s homemade string and percussive instrumentation. The tracks’ foundations were built running these elements of tuned percussion through delay and reverb pedals, experimenting with interlocking polyrhythms and the overtones and textures created by the raw recordings.

Contours built upon these recordings utilising a range of live instrumentation such as synthesizers, drum machines and other organic percussion. He worked alongside several instrumentalists: cellist Abel Selaocoe and saxophonist/ flautist Callum Connell feature on ‘Keld’, violinist Simmy Singh on ‘45npr’, and violinist Beka Reid on ‘Eastern Bells’.

Balafon Sketches sees the coming together of electronic and organic instrumentation. It crosses musical traditions that makes for a sonic journey, taking as much influence from African rhythmic practice as it does from minimalism, electronic music and the transcendental nature of ambient music and spiritual jazz.

This release is the organic output of spontaneous experimentation with friends, and was entirely recorded in our homes in Manchester and Cumbria.

Each tape features a hand-printed linocut by Kitty Hopking.

100% of profits from this release will be donated to Kids of Colour and Colours Youth Network.

Kids of Colour is a Manchester-based organisation that provides a platform for young people of colour to explore race, identity and culture and challenge the everyday, institutionalised racism that shapes their lives.
www.kidsofcolour.com

Colours Youth Network supports young Black and people of colour who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex (QTIBPOC) to explore and celebrate who they are through meaningful connections to other young people and a team of experienced QTIBPOC youth workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/colours-youth-network  
Credits
Seth Sutton: Gamelan, percussion & homemade instrumentation
Abel Selaocoe: Cello
Callum Connell: Saxophone & flute
Simmy Singh: Violin
Beka Reid: Violin
Tom Burford: Production, balafon, gamelan, percussion, drum machine, synthesizer, RE20 space echo & field recordings

Mastering: Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound
Tape Duplication: Tape Line Stockport