Noah Garabedian | Consider the Stars Beneath Us | Album
BASSIST AND COMPOSER NOAH GARABEDIAN BRINGS QUARTET VISION TO NEXT LEVEL WITH CONSIDER THE STARS BENEATH US
Featuring Garabedian with Dayna Stephens (tenor/soprano saxes), Carmen Staaf (piano), Jimmy Macbride (drums) with Samuel Adams (producer, sound design, efx) Available from Outside In Music on September 23, 2022.
We are confronted with different paths daily. The choices that we make can be
beneficial, risky, anxiety-filled, or exciting, among other feelings. Consider The Stars Beneath Us
is a reminder that there are alternatives to our initial reactions; there is more than what is
immediately visible. Music is an act of participation, connection, and community. Music reflects what's happening in the world and in our hearts, processing and remixing these experiences into something new and illuminating. This album is an homage to our ancestors, future spirits, and future elders; it is a body of work that explores my own personal experience with loss. Music is both an escape and a reflection of reality. It is a way to get away from daily life while still being in it, enjoying it. Music contains the same emotional complexity we experience throughout our daily lives, and I encourage you to be open to those experiences as you listen to this music and as you go about your life. Music can help us understand what's going on in our hearts and in our world because it reflects on life, processes life, remixes life, illuminates life through sound. Music is an act of participation—an act of connecting—an act of engaging—
with both ourselves and with others.
Consider The Stars Beneath Us shows us the many structures in our lives, and then asks us to examine how those structures hold us up and support us. There can be beautiful escapes within, but music is as likely to remind us where we are as where we aren't.
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