On Repeat: San Solomon

Posted by Kelly on March 9, 2009 in Balmorhea, mp3 | 2 comments

I want to post this song today. It has been languishing in my “songs to post” bookmark file for a couple weeks, basically unheard, forgotten. When I was composing (and crying through) my last post, I did a brief cruise through the list and found it. It was the only song that I listened to before deciding that I probably didn’t have any music that would be appropriate to accompany the sentiments of  that post.

In the meantime, I was captured by this song. Was it the piano? The strings? The sparse, almost not there, vocals? Was it the changes throughout the song, a little like tubing down the river and the changing experiences; the calm moments, the beauty, the rapids, the melancholy, the joy? Or could it be the rather unexpected hand claps that won me over? Who knows? I do know that I played it over and over again throughout the day and yesterday, and felt the need to share:

mp3: “San Solomon” – Balmorhea (pronounced Balm-or-ay)
Rivers Arms

And as a bonus, here is a song off their new album coming out tomorrow:

mp3: “Harm and Boon” – Balmorhea
All Is Wild All Is Silent
Balmorhea-MySpace

and an older one, also from Rivers Arms
from  SXSW’s 2008 artists list:

mp3: “Limmat” – Balmorhea