Soft Focus: Volumes One and Two

by Wednesday Knudsen

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Charlie Moonbeam Wordless melodies, sonorous waves wafting delicately through the artist's workspace.
Favorite track: Spring Song.

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1.	Spring Song 04:04	info	buy track
2.	Soft Focus I 08:05		buy track
3.	Beautiful Day 03:38		buy track
4.	Days of Rain 04:15		buy track
5.	The Lilac Sea 11:35		buy track
6.	Daffodil 03:13		buy track
7.	Sunshine 04:52		buy track
8.	Ariel's Letter And the Rain 13:51		buy track
9.	Soft Focus II 19:47		buy track

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Pastoral moods, pastel modes, daydream verve, colors in complement, slightly dissonant, outdoor airs, shadow underleaf, gravity's touch, falling rain, solemn distances, memento mori, the wandering mind...

Soft Focus is two volumes of a musical experiment that intended to go one way and went another. A project that sought song form became a process that discovered tonal movements through unexpected environments and atmospheres. I hope you enjoy! --Wednesday

"First off, I should probably mention that this CD contains what might one day be two separate LPs. But if you have even a scintilla of info about the state of record pressing these days, you'll also know that all our best laid plans could go sideways. Fast. Still, this is a damn nice way to hear all this music without a lot of the endless huffing and puffing required by the flipping of individual LPs. Which means, for now you can just let the sweet swelter of Soft Focus wash over you like a warm, mid-summer wave on a tropical island. And if you want to have a cocktail while listening, go right ahead.
This is only Wednesday's third solo release, following a CDR on Mystra and a cassette on Microdose. But she has a long recording history with the Pigeons and a few other combos. And it's her fifth appearance on an FTR release, following Viewer's New Salem MC (FTRCS239), Weeping Bong Band's debut LP (FTR313), and a pair of LPs in duo with Willie Lane (FTR530 & 589). We have some other pots boiling for her as well, but for now, here's Soft Focus.
This project was begun last spring, deep in the Plague Era, when it was hoped things might be turning better. It is all solo work, apart from a little harp by PG Six on one track, and Wednesday displays her talents on woodwinds, guitar, keyboards and vocals. The mood is abstract and wistful, bright at some moments and shrouded at others. Wednesday describes the sound as “ambient,” but there's more to than that term often infers. The pieces are closer to the abstractions Eno explored on Another Green World and Before and After Science than to Music for Airports or Discreet Music. There's a lovely pop sensibility hiding in them thar hills. And now it's available for you to hear on full repeat.
You must have done something right!"
--Byron Coley

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released June 24, 2022

Recorded March - May 2020 In Austerlitz, NY
All Songs by Wednesday Knudsen
Harp on Spring Song: PG Six
Mastering: Caleb Mulkerin
Cover Art: Lauren Knudsen
Design: Kate Widdows
Thank You: C. G., friends and family
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