The Music Between Us

Robert C. Ford

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Format: Album
Year: 2021
Label/Distributor: Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution

The Music Between Us, Robert C. Ford’s debut album, brings together ten songs featuring his poetry set to music by Charles Coleman, Mark Kostabi, and Gene Pritsker. The poems reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic, cancel culture, and the events of the time. Ford performs spoken word on three tracks, with Coleman and Berzan Önen providing vocals on the others.

• Track Listing & Credits

  1. The Strength of Diversity (Don't Marry Your Cousin) - Robert C. Ford, David Taylor, Todd Rewoldt & Gene Pritsker

  2. The Music Between Us - Charles Coleman & Geoffrey Burleson

  3. Mama, I Can't Breathe Chorales: No. 1 - Robert C. Ford & Gene Pritsker

  4. Panda Mating Season - Charles Coleman & Geoffrey Burleson

  5. Bitcoin Without a Blockchain (Live) - Charles Coleman, Lynn Bechtold & Michiyo Suzuki

  6. Mother Earth Doesn't Wear Lipstick - Charles Coleman & Geoffrey Burleson

  7. Do Not Pass Go - Robert C. Ford & Mark Kostabi

  8. The Music Between Us (Version for Baritone & Guitar) - Charles Coleman & Gene Pritsker

  9. Statue Down (What Will the Pigeons Do?) - Charles Coleman

  10. The Biggest Lie (Trickle Down) - Berzan Önen, Gene Pritsker, Clemens Rofner & Francesco Coppola Bove

“Three composers - Charles Coleman, Mark Kostabi and Gene Pritsker - have collaborated to put Ford’s enticing poetry into the limelight.”

— Andrew Humphries, No Scene Unheard
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