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Neon

by Andrew Boudreau

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1.
Mile Ex 07:06
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2.
Ribbons 06:28
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3.
Maud Lewis 04:59
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4.
Neon 01:21
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5.
Ghost Stories 09:14
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6.
One Day 04:32
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7.
The Water’s Cold 04:24
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8.
Hopscotch 07:42
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9.
Welcome Oak 00:49
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Music, the way most people experience it today, is disembodied and dislocated. It fills our ears and our homes; our private and public spaces. It’s transmitted across vast geographies by satellite, servers, wifi networks and bluetooth signals —surging streams of music that carry little trace of the musician other than a name and an avatar. But music itself always speaks to place and person. You can hear the history of the world in a song if you know how to listen. It follows that a recording, like this one, is a testament.

It says, “Here, it happened this way, and not some other way. We made these choices together, in real time. We made this music for a reason.” Neon is thoughtful, textured music by a complex modern jazz quartet. In nine tracks, Andrew Boudreau’s head and hands make biography and geography audible. Here, in no particular order, is some of what you can hear.Boston, and the different roads these musicians took —from Atlantic Canada, from Chile, from Israel and the United States— to arrive there. A Montreal neighborhood in rapid transition. Idiosyncratic and exuberant folk art by Nova Scotia painter Maud Lewis. A tender, angry, work by David Wojnarowicz that uplifts and indicts. Walking out of the Whitney Museum into a hot, grey, late summer day in New York City. Nights camping in Cape Breton. An expatriate Argentinian in Paris. Sand slipping through a child’ssieve in a tourist trap. The tree that stands alone in a field, halfway between Halifax and home.

You don’t need to know these places to love this music, just as you don’t have to know the musicians who made it. But listen, and they become a part of you. That’s what music can do. Recorded in the pandemic, but not of it, Neon burns through borders, sweeps you into its circle, and enlarges your world.

—Tanya Kalmanovitch (November, 2021)

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released February 18, 2022

All compositions written and arranged by Andrew Boudreau

Personnel:
Andrew Boudreau (piano), Neta Raanan (tenor sax on #1-3 & 5-8), Simon Willson (bass), Eviatar Slivnik (drums).
Recorded at Samurai Hotel, Astoria, NY, August 13, 2021

Engineer & mixed by David Stoller
Mastered by Eivind Opsvik at Greenwood Underground, Brooklyn, New York
Artwork: Knar Hovakimyan / Danielle Boudreau
Photography by Desmond White
Liner notes: Tanya Kalmanovitch

Produced by Frank Carlberg
Executive Producer: Jordi Pujol

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