Impromptu Sessions No. 1:
Brittany Haas
Says Brittany, “This record came out of a jam one night that felt nice. I got excited and wanted to capture it, so I called Critter and had him come over for dinner and then set up mics in the dining room of Mike’s empty new house. We moved a couple mattresses in around us and tracked for three nights.
These tunes are ones I’ve loved for a long time, and it felt freeing to play them on the banjo. The two basses made the old melodies seem wide open and I think Paul and Mike’s personalities shine through. Hope you have fun listening, like we did playing.”
Tom’s cover art is based on the mo’ai statues made by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. The juxtaposition of these monolithic figures with the instruments on the recording - banjo from West Africa and double bass from Europe - brings together different corners of the world into an imagined history of shared music.
Banjo: Brittany Haas; Basses: Mike Gaisbacher & Paul Kowert.
PDD-I-006 Released March 18, 2022. Available in digital format.