Weighting, by Gabriel Zucker

Weighting

by Gabriel Zucker

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1.	Would It Come Back To You? 07:30		buy track
2.	The Uselessness Of Truth / Not To Be Anything More 05:06	info	buy track
3.	The Stream of New York / and art, of course 06:53	info	buy track
4.	Missing Our Appointments With Each Other 05:57		buy track
5.	What's left (when we are always honest) / The Future Was A Place 06:44	info	buy track
6.	a movie, a lover 12:12		buy track
7.	Dissimulation / Not Knowing It At The Time 08:09	info	buy track
8.	the stones in my pockets 09:33		buy track

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piano, compositions | Gabriel Zucker
drums | Tyshawn Sorey
trumpet | Adam O'Farrill
saxophone | Eric Trudel

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inspired by The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

recorded at Oktaven Audio, 6 October 2016
engineered by Ryan Streber
produced by Gabriel Zucker
mixed by Chris Connors and Gabriel Zucker
mastered by Chris Connors

album art by Gaya Feldheim Schorr

New York
September 2014 — June 2015

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All those coats pulling him down had reminded Sandro of a tribe his father had told him about, deep in the Amazon of Brazil, who weighted themselves with stones so that their souls would not wander away. Sandro had asked more, but his father brushed him off. It became an obsession for him as a boy, this idea of people trying to keep their souls from escaping. He read about other tribes in other parts of the world, Borneo and New Guinea, people for whom the soul was a contingent and skittish thing that could be chased out or lost or worse. It might run away. It had to be kept from leaving you, whether with seduction or stays or hooks or with heavy stones.

That the soul was not a fact, a simple thing you were, and possessed, had seemed to Sandro so reasonable. Still he believed it. That reality, in a sense, was not an objective place where you were thrust. You had to maintain your hold on it by vigilantly keeping watch over whatever slight and intangible thing gave your life its meaning. Call it a soul, or a presence. Whatever it was, a prisoner or guest and you had to trick it or petition it into lingering.

People weighted themselves, Sandro knew, if not with stones.

A movie, a lover. Friends. Complicities. A certain amount of success. These were decent crutches, provided they could be changed up often enough. And art, of course. Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. ...

But if you let your soul go? Let it wander? Would it eventually come home to you? Was it like love in that sense? A thing you had to set free to experience? Even to encounter? Whoever encountered love was so lucky. He meant encountered it not as a might have been but as it was. There was maybe no such thing. His father said history was always late for its date with itself. It was late, it was early, it was before and after its own time. Italy was always missing its rendezvous with itself. The timing of its becoming a nation had not worked, and no one believed in the Risorgimento. The North and the South were never in sync. People had their revelations too early or too late. They were always missing their appointments with themselves. Well. With each other, too.

— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

THE FLAMETHROWERS © 2013 by Rachel Kushner. Reprinted by permission of Writers House LLC acting as agent for the author. All rights reserved.

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Gabriel Zucker New York, New York

Gabriel Zucker is a pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from New York, whose work combines maximalist compositions with the progressive improvisation of New York’s creative music scene.

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