Crux, by Jaggery

Crux

by Jaggery

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Don Mitchell I've let this sit in my collection only fleetingly heard. Today I put it on and it blew me away. Great music, intriguing lyrics. I must give it more attention. Favorite track: This Way, That Way.

Matt Samolis There is so much to love about this album and this band! This release in particular harnesses total command of impressive sparse/dense textures, mature songwriting, and of course Mali's incredible voice. The considerable breadth of influences here are coherently assembled, and delivered seamlessly with abandon. Today I'm sayin 'Venus..' is my favorite track, but that keeps changing as each track reveals more upon successive listenings. Favorite track: Venus in Transit.

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1.	War Cry 04:59	buy track
2.	Garden 04:25	buy track
3.	Walls are Windows 03:36	buy track
4.	Icy 03:53	buy track
5.	Venus in Transit 04:15	buy track
6.	Crux 03:21	buy track
7.	Raskolnikov 04:48	buy track
8.	Those Who 03:39	buy track
9.	This Way, That Way 04:31	buy track
10.	Theory of Everything 03:46	buy track
11.	Nijinsky's Diaries 06:33	buy track

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released April 29, 2016

All music & lyrics written by Mali Sastri/Jaggery, except lyrics on Track 11*
Produced by Jaggery, Co-produced by Jon Evans
Recorded, Engineered, & Mixed by Jon Evans
Recorded at Brick Hill Studio, Orleans, MA between Jan - Aug 2015
Mastered by Coast Mastering, Berkeley, CA

Vocals, piano, keyboard - Mali Sastri
Upright and electric bass - Tony Leva, except Track 13 by Jon Evans
Drums/percussion (Tracks 1, 4, 8, 10 & 12) - Daniel Schubmehl
Drums/percussion (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13) - Dylan Jack
Viola, piano (Track 10), Hammond Organ (Track 12) - Rachel Jayson
Background Vocals, Harp (Tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 13) - Petaluma Vale
Harp (Tracks 1, 4, 10 & 11) - Maeve Gilchrist
Harp (Track 7) - Mary Bichner

Photography by Matt Samolis

THANK YOU: Jon Evans, Suri & Candy Sastri, Steve Bogart, friends, family, loved ones, listeners

Tracks 1, 2, 4, & 5 originally written as part of Ten Paintings, Ten Songs, inspired by paintings by Steven Bogart: singermali.bandcamp.com

Track 2 contains elements of "Kubi Ukungalaleli" (J. Shabalala). Galo Music Publishers (SAMRO). All rights administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission

*Excerpts from THE DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY: Unexpurgated Edition translated by Kyril Fitzlyon, edited with an introduction by Joan Acocella. Copyright © 1995 by Actes Sud. Revised translation copyright © 1999 by Kyril FritzLyon. Used by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.

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