Alphabet of Wrongdoing equinox 9.23.2022
Alphabet of Wrongdoing available from Idée Fixe on the equinox 9.23.2022 in three lush formats:
This music is for challenging junctures, when we have more questions than answers.
Share this music in the spirit of reconciliation - with self, with other, with the cosmos and its keeper...
18 tracks, run time 47:14
Designed by Brankica Harvey and Ken Deegan at Pentagram.
The companion 108 page libretto is a roadmap to follow in sequence while listening to the album, or you can turn to any page, regarding each facet you encounter as a koan that can hopefully illuminate the more esoteric aspects of this work. This debut collection of poems and essays asks, Can we transmute a world’s weight of unforgivable acts, an Alphabet of Wrongdoing? Both the album and the book investigate communal gestures of forgiveness - attempts to "Restore dignity to existence through music…" (poet Alan Felsenthal)
Produced by Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman of Snowblink.
Performed by Daniela Gesundheit with Dan Goldman, Basia Bulat, Johnny Spence, Sarah Pagé, Evan Cartwright, Alex Lukashevsky, Sari Lightman, Romy Lightman, Jason Sharp, with string arrangements by Owen Pallett performed by the Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra (Oleg Kondratenko, conductor).
Instrumentation: Voice, nylon string and electric guitars, synth, piano, bass and baritone saxophones, harp, percussion, autoharp, nineteen piece string orchestra.
Mixed by Steve Kaye at Sunking Studios in Los Angeles (Kol Nidre mixed by Dan Goldman).
Recorded by Dan Goldman in Montréal, Leon Taheny at Boombox studio in Toronto, Nicolas Pétrowski at Mixart in Montréal, and Daniela Gesundheit in Los Angeles.
Mastered by David Travers-Smith at found.sound
Recorded with the assistance of a Canada Council for the Arts Concept to Realization Grant.
Alphabet of Wrongdoing was recorded on the traditional territories of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat people, and on the unceded lands of The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation and the Gabrielino/Tongva people.