Maintenance of Way, by Dan Siegler

Maintenance of Way

by Dan Siegler

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3.	No Party by That Name 02:28		buy track
4.	Ghost Sentence 08:05		buy track
5.	Track Meet 03:33		buy track
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7.	Not a Stable Pattern (live at Art Omi) 04:14	info	buy track
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Maintenance of Way, the latest release from composer and sound artist Dan Siegler, is a comprehensive body of work that shows the established composer and sought-after collaborator stepping boldly into the foreground of a landscape shaped by his life and eclectic career in New York City.

The album’s title is a railway term that describes procedures intended to keep rides navigable and clear and connects to Siegler’s daily New York City commute, as well as to the goal of remaining true to your ideals, i.e., ‘maintaining your way’ of doing things. In Siegler’s case this is a “sound first” approach—gathering field recordings and letting those dictate where the compositions will lead.

Maintenance of Way creates a space where ambient atmospheres and radical transformation coexist. Entrances and exits are pronounced and pointed. The listener is gripped by abrupt but organic shifts of rhythm and tone. Like a subway train emerging on the other side of a tunnel, or out into daylight, the sudden switches in musical surroundings create a feeling of illumination after stretches of darkness. That contrast creates a push/pull dynamic in which no one part can exist without the other.

Siegler strives to locate beauty in dissonance, drawing influence from the likes of Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, David Bowie, and the dense atonal sampling techniques of Wu-Tang Clan and Public Enemy. Steeped in the aura of his native New York City, the music conveys a feeling of disorientation and discovery, like finding a street you’ve never walked down in a place you’ve lived your entire life.

Maintenance of Way is a confident stride into unfamiliar ground. It emits the excited energy of moving beyond a passenger role with a newly defined direction, propelled by a feeling of necessity as if to say, “if not now, when?”

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released November 11, 2022

ROB HEATH: Drums
KATE VARGAS: Flute
TOMOKO OMURA: Violin
PAULINE KIM HARRIS: Violin and Vocals
CONRAD HARRIS: Violin and Vocals
JOE ANCOWITZ: Trumpet
EVELINA ROLON: Harp
GREG CHUDZIK: Bass sample
DAN SIEGLER: Minimoog, Juno-60, Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Yamaha Electone Organ, Chord-o-Dot, electric bass, acoustic and electric guitar, drum programming, percussion, field recordings

Live Ensemble on Not a Stable Pattern:
SHRUTHI VISHWANATH: Vocals
BEN ZUCKER: Trumpet, Vocals
SYLVIA HINZ: Recorder, Vocals
JOHANNA AMAYA: Drums, Vocals
SHANNON BARNETT: Trombone, Vocals
VIOLETA GARCIA: Cello, Vocals

Mixed by ETHAN DONALDSON
Mastered by ALAN SILVERMAN at Arf Mastering
Engineered and Produced by DAN SIEGLER
Recorded at Saturnfoot Studios, Bowery Digital and Rob Heath Studios
Design DAWN SINKOWSKI

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Dan Siegler New York, New York

Dan Siegler is a Bessie Award-winning composer and sound artist. His music has been described as "luxuriously mercurial" by Artforum, and “frequently haunting” by The New Yorker. Influenced by musique concrète, his work incorporates references to jazz, blues and folk via a mix of analog synthesizers, orchestration for strings, horns + woodwinds, glitch sound material + field recordings. ... more

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