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Martin, Luke: To Be Worthy of Pessoa (Editions Verde)

Drawing inspiration from Fernando Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet," composer Luke Martin leads the ensemble Ordinary Affects — Morgan Evans-Weiler & Francesca Caruso (violin), Jordan Dykstra (viola), Laura Cetilia (cello), J.P.A. Falzone (vibes) and Luke Damrosch (farfisa organ) — through two introspective, quietly evolving compositions of minimalistic beauty creating thoughtful sonic dialogues.
 

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Morgan Evans-Weiler-violin

Francesca Caruso-violin

Jordan Dykstra-viola

Laura Cetilia-cello

Luke Martin-acoustic guitar, composer

J.P.A. Falzone-vibraphone

Luke Damrosch-farfisa organ


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Includes a 6-page booklet with liner notes by Morgan Evans-Weiler

UPC: 198595521205

Label: Editions Verde
Catalog ID: EV015
Squidco Product Code: 36034

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock Gatefold Sleeve, Sealed
Track 1 recorded in Vermont, in July, 2021, track 2 recorded in Maine in August, 2022, by Luke Damrosch.

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To Be Worthy of Pessoa is composed by Luke Martin and performed by Ordinary Affects with liner notes by Morgan Evans-Weiler. The 75 minute 2-track album takes inspiration (and quotations) from Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet. Evans-Weiler's essay poetically connects Pessoa's words and these recordings:

Ordinary Affects is Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin), Francesca Caruso (violin), Jordan Dykstra (viola), Laura Cetilia (cello), Luke Martin (acoustic guitar), J. P. A. Falzone (vibraphone), and Luke Damrosch (farfisa organ).



"Martin's music, in its stillness and consistency, is a place for concepts to incubate and for simple sounds to pass by. Pessoa/Soares and Martin are all philosophers as artists; their works form questions through doubt but seek hope for new forms and a potential but fleeting cohesion of an Idea. The floating impermanence of Martin's work and Pessoa's "Disquiet," is an active search; a space where moments coincide, thoughts mature, doubts multiply - a place where truth and the new are sought but also a place where it's ok if we just have and embrace an experience."-Editions Verde


Includes a 6-page booklet with liner notes by Morgan Evans-Weiler

Artist Biographies

"Morgan Evans-Weiler, violinist, composer, improviser and teacher, is currently living in the Boston area working as a freelance musician and teacher.

He completed his bachelor's degree at Western Michigan University with a double degree in Music Composition and Performance studying with Renata Knific, Richard Adams, and Curtis-Curtis Smith. He studied violin further with Laura Bossert and jazz with Peter Cassino in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently he studies composition, theory, musicology, history and just about everything else with Peter Evans.

While in Michigan, he co-founded, performed with, and composed for the Nuevo tango band Barefoot Tango and the songwriting collective Blackwater Valley Songs. He also performed with the Traverse City and Battle Creek Symphony Orchestras, and the annual New Music Project. While in the Boston area, he has performed with the Modern American Music String Quartet, Longitude and various jazz and free-jazz groups. He has played in and composed music for performances at The Regattabar, Lilypad, and Pickman Hall (Longy School of Music) in Cambridge, as well as numerous halls and art spaces throughout Michigan.

Recently, he performed a full concert of music at Outpost 186 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The concert included performances of several of Morgan's new works as well as performances of the works of Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Steve Reich and Ornette Coleman.

He continues to compose and perform in the Boston area."

-Morgan Evans-Weiler Website (https://morganevansweiler.wordpress.com/about/)
3/26/2025

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"Jordan Dykstra (b. 1985, Sioux City, Iowa) is a Brooklyn-based violist and composer exploring the performer-composer-listener relationship through the incorporation of conceptual, graphic, and text-based elements. In 2007 he moved to Portland, OR and became involved in the experimental music scene in the Pacific NW. Aside from performing and recording with individuals and bands - including Dirty Projectors, A Winged Victory for the Sullen with Hildur Guðnadóttir, Atlas Sound, and Valet - he worked at Marriage Records and Publishing House. In 2014 he received a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission to apprentice with Daníel Bjarnason, composer and conductor of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, in Reykjavík, Iceland. He received his BFA in 2016 under Michael Pisaro, Ulrich Krieger, and Wolfgang von Schweinitz at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. In 2018 he received his MA in Experimental Composition from Wesleyan University in Connecticut where - under the mentorship of Alvin Lucier and astrophysicist Seth Redfield - his thesis explored connections between microtonality and the cosmic distance ladder. In 2019 he received a Cultural Grant from the Netherlands-America Foundation to compose "The Arrow of Time" and premiere the work with Reinier van Houdt in Amsterdam. In 2020 The Arrow of Time was listed as one of the best Modern Composition albums by The Wire and included in The Best Contemporary Classical Albums of 2020 by Bandcamp. As a media composer he has numerous credits including the films Blow the Man Down, Hail Satan?, It Comes At Night, and the 2019 Emmy winner for Outstanding Investigative Documentary Documenting Hate. His compositions for film have been heard at Cannes, Sundance, TriBeCa, TIFF, and the IFFR. His performance highlights include MOCA (CA), Harpa (Iceland), Musikfestval Bern (Switzerland), Ftarri (Tokyo), CHAFF (Brussels), Echo Bücher (Berlin), Syros Institute (Greece), Yale Union (OR), Big Ears Festival (TN), and the RISD Museum (RI). Recordings of his music (solo and collaborative) have been issued by New World Records, Domino, Milan, Marriage, Mexican Summer, K, Gilgongo, and Dykstra's own cottage industry label Editions Verde."

-Jordan Dykstra Website (https://www.jordandykstra.com/)
3/26/2025

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"Cellist and electronic musician Laura Cetilia is a performer, composer, educator, and presenter. A daughter of mixed heritage, she is at home with in-betweeness. As a composer, her music has been described as "unorthodox loveliness" by the Boston Globe and and her debut solo album was hailed as "alternately penetrating and atmospheric" in Sequenza 21. The Grove Dictionary of American Music describes her electroacoustic duo Mem1 as a "complex cybernetic entity" that "understands its music as a feedback loop between the past and present." Mem1 has held artist residencies and toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. In her viola/cello duo, Suna No Onna, she has worked closely with and premiered works by composers André Cormier, Jürg Frey and Antoine Beuger, among others. As a product of the now-dwindling public school music program, Laura believes in the right to accessible music education and is a Resident Musician at Community MusicWorks, a non-profit organization that provides free after-school music education programs for children in urban neighborhoods of Providence, RI. There she teaches cello, is co-director of the media lab and the curator of the Ars Subtilior experimental music series. She is also a proud mother of one."

-Laura Cetilia Website (http://laura.cetilia.org/about/)
3/26/2025

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Luke Martin is an experimental composer, performer, and writer living in Minneapolis, MN. He plays guitar and no-input mixing board, often with people in and around the Wandelweiser Group, and is part of the ensemble Ordinary Affects. Luke's work is mainly oriented toward thinking - particularly by way of silence as such - a positive relation between music and truth.

-Luke Martin Website (http://www.lukecmartin.com/about.html)
3/26/2025

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"J.P.A. Falzone is a keyboard player and vibraphonist, a composer and song writer. He is the coordinator of Providence Research Ensemble and Providence Keyboard Ensemble."

-Squidco 3/26/2025

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Luke Damrosch is an accomplished audio engineer and recording specialist based in Beverly, Massachusetts, known for his exceptional skill in capturing acoustic performances on location. With expertise spanning recording, mastering, and editing, Damrosch has contributed significantly to the classical music recording landscape. Notably, he engineered pianist Andrew Rangell's critically acclaimed album of Domenico Scarlatti sonatas, released on the Steinway & Sons label, showcasing his keen ear and technical precision. His commitment to high-quality sound reproduction extends to his work as session engineer for Navona Records' esteemed series "Voices of Earth and Air Vol V." Damrosch continues to be highly regarded in the field of acoustic music recording, bringing clarity, authenticity, and an artistic touch to every project he undertakes.

-Squidco 3/26/2025

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1 The Air is a Concealed Yellow 34:37

2. The Door to the Old Garden Left Ajar 40:47

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