VOLLMAR -
13 or so People who need chances CD (INRI074)
Campfire Songs CDR (ORPHAN010)

JUSTIN VOLLMAR's second full-length CD for Bluesanct, 13 or so People who need Chances, is available now from Bluesanct mail order. The first 50 orders received will also receive FREE a live 8 song CDR by VOLLMAR, entitled Campfire Songs, containing many songs exclusive to this release.

Campfire Songs is available EXCLUSIVELY through this offer and is running out fast, so ORDER NOW

VOLLMAR is from Bloomington, IN, by way of WV. He's made an album of obvious songs (recorded at home) with obvious sounds (recorded elsewhere). At the same time being both less and more than his first record, Every Place is Home (Bluesanct 2002), 13 or so People in Need of Chances is an exercise in traditional folk-song story-telling with contemporary structural elements. The record has a first half (nylon stringed guitar and voice), interlude (instrumental for found sounds and toy piano), last half (electric guitar and voice) and end (youth and hope). Sounds are used to narrate the songs and direct the listener into new settings while also allowing Vollmar to create pieces that are both surreal and expressionistic. Musically, he sounds simultaneously old (maybe Donovan or Townes Van Zandt) and new (maybe Warn Defever or The Microphones).

Structurally, it may be said that the record has more in common with the experimental films of Stan Brakage or Hollis Frampton than with any particular musical artist of our time. And like J.D.Salinger's 9 Stories, each of the songs are about seperate people who collectively make a family of sorts. 12 songs exploring 13 or so characters, their weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and sensitivities in search of some glimmer of light. The discovery is that people are moving in different directions.

Like label mates Drekka, Elephant Micah, rivulets, and static films, he is part of the Day2 Alliance family of artists, all exploring the joys and problems of community and placement through artistic expression.

13 OR SO PEOPLE WHO NEED CHANCES
INRI074

• Who Have You Never Spoken With (Spilled Upon the Ground)
• Dove for Sale
• A Widow
• Beside the Sea from You and Me
• Lover, Won't You Bring Those Berries
• Instrumental (Nothing's Different)
• William, Go Away
• A Man Talking to His Dog
• Henry's Unprepared
• Daisy's Out of Line
• Joseph and Rosemary
• Lucy of the Blue Hills

CAMPFIRE SONGS
ORPHAN010

• "Abbie are you fond of the blue skies?"
• "The light was awfully fast"
• "Smile when you never know, and it's alright"
• "Spider in the sky, how'd you get so high?"
• "Take this in rememberance"
• "To get back to the Appalachians, I would dig the greatest tunnel"
• "If I could grow a flower, and grow it just for you"
• "Sometimes I'm lonely, you were all that I had"

Campfire Songs were recorded live outside at The Beehive, May 19, 2004

MP3: more tracks available in the SOUND section

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