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March of the Mollusk

by Benny Bleu

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vicvar22 Just a full album of uninturrupted banjo music. I play this cd multiple times a week. It is excellent. All of the songs are equally great and carry a similar tone. This is one of my favorite albums to listen to beginning to end and I recommend that anyone listen to this. Favorite track: Five Miles from Town.
jgilmore096
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jgilmore096 Haven't heard but the three up front. So , will go with the live performances fro Benny. The greatest. Favorite track: Fairy Shrimp.
dylan20
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dylan20 Benny, I've been grooving on your meditative banjo stylings on YouTube for a year or two now, and I'm really happy to see an album of these unhurried tunes from you. The three songs in the teaser do not disappoint. It's a rare musical spirit that can combine the banjo and meditation, but you make it seem perfectly natural and peaceful. I'm looking forward to the full album when it comes out. Thank you!
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bretterb I love the relaxed, unhurried, meditative style of Benny's playing. It's super refreshing compared to the breakneck speed at which most folks play overhand banjo.
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Winder Slide 03:24

about

Clawhammer banjo meditations for modern humans inspired by ancient gastropods.

Consider the snail. They are never in a hurry. They carry their home with them wherever they go, and can retreat to it on a dime. Yet they are respectful and curious about other snails. They can smell the world around them in stereo. They generate so much slime that they get to glide through the world almost free of friction. They eat mostly fungi, plants, and earth, yet they never take more than their share. They help the whole forest by processing the leaf litter and occasionally one sacrifices itself for the benefit of a fellow creature like a turkey. And since they've been around since the Cambrian Period and they still thrive all over the globe, maybe we have a thing or two to learn from them.

In reverence of snails and other gastropods, and the pace at which they savor this world, I humbly offer this collection of banjo tunes played at rather gentle tempos and with as little friction as possible. There are some brisk moments that may flirt with 120 bpm, but overall I think you'll find it fairly relaxing. That's my goal at least. I also hope this music can accompany you while you do something you enjoy like yoga or cooking or taking a walk or something. They are marches after all. The bugle melody in lock-step with the drum corps.

These recordings are dedicated to Richie Stearns, Rayna Gellert, Josh Rabie, Rosie Newton, Jason and Pharis Romero, Adam Hurt, Aaron Lipp, and Reed Martin. The crooked adaptation of Elk River Blues was taught to me by Fred Coon. And here's a cosmic nod to Mac Benford for teaching me Julianne Johnson. James Jamerson, Bernard Purdie and Ray Brown need recognition too.

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released February 24, 2023

Performed and recorded by Benny Bleu Haravitch in spring of 2022 in Hemlock, NY. Mastered by Aaron Lipp at Temple Cabin Studios. Featuring a lovely cover painting of a snail by Erika Guli, and a back photo portrait by Andy Smith that is NOT photo-shopped. It's a perfectly composed capture. Inside photo of active clawhamming by Jim Dombkowski.

Most tunes are played on a Bart Reiter Standard banjo, and two are played on a fretless mountain banjo made by geologist Dick Gilman.

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A folk musician from the Finger Lakes of New York offering sounds to help navigate the demands of modern life.

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