Footprints of Steel
Robert C. Ford
Format: Album
Year: 2025
Label/Distributor: Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution
Footprints of Steel, Robert C. Ford’s second album, brings together 14 tracks featuring his poetry set to music by Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson), Carli Muñoz (Beach Boys, Wilson Pickett), Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul), Jay Rodriguez Sierra (Groove Collective, Wu-Tang Clan), and Take-A-Pick, the duo of Brian DuFord and Milica Paranosic.
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Puzzle Complete (The You of Me) - Ford/Pritsker
Ascending Volumes - Ford/Rodriguez-Sierra
The Difference Unhappiness - Ford/Pritsker
Not All Apples Are Blue Color - Ford/Take-A-Pick (Brian DuFord, Milica Paranosic)
9-Months Earlier - Ford/Pritsker
Suicide Barbie - Ford/Pritsker
Why Didn't You Tag Me? - Ford/Pritsker
Blissful Surrender - Ford/Pritsker
Footprints of Steel - Ford/Pritsker
Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH) - Ford/Muñoz
The Color of the Number 3 - Ford/Pritsker
The Day Saturn Lost Its Rings - Ford/Pritsker
May the Great Ark Save the Drones - Ford/Pritsker
Dream Big - Ford/Holzman
Personnel
Julia Amisano — voice
Greg Baker — guitar
Lynn Bechtold — violin
Geoffrey Burleson — piano
Charles Coleman — voice
David Cossin — drums
Daniel Cubillan — voice
Brian DuFord — acoustic guitar
Stefanie Egger — voice
Robert C. Ford — spoken word
Mat Fieldes — bass guitar
Franz Hackl — trumpet
Adam Holzman — keyboards/Moog bass
Russell Holzman — drums
Lish Lindsey — flute
Eddy Malave — viola
Jose Moura — bass
Carli Muñoz — piano
Mara Navas — cello
Berzan Onen — voice
Cesare Papetti — drums
Milica Paranosic — acoustic guitar/electronics/voice
Gene Pritsker — electronics/guitar
Vanessa Rincon voice
Jay Rodriguez-Sierra — flute/saxophone
Simon Springer — drums
Adriana Valdés — voice
Octavio Maya Rocha — album cover
“No, this cut [‘Not All Apples Are Blue Color’] is not of the Dada school, it isn’t No Wave, nor post-punk, but of a late-1960s fashion recalling Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable and an acoustic Velvet Underground, wherein the poet’s recitation and droning vocal are interspersed with Milica Paranosic’s mellifluous singing and piercing spoken word, anchored by Brian DuFord’s classical guitar. Here, women’s liberation tangos with the truly absurd, in a manner demanding repeated listenings.”
—John Pietaro
NYC Jazz Record columinst; co-host, WFMU’s Beneath the Underground
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