The Music Between Us
Robert C. Ford
Format: Album
Year: 2021
Label: 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.
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The Strength of Diversity (Don't Marry Your Cousin) - Ford/Pritsker
The Music Between Us - Coleman/Ford
Mama, I Can't Breathe Chorales No. 1 - Ford/Pritsker
Panda Mating Season - Coleman/Ford
Bitcoin Without a Blockchain (Live) - Ford/Pritsker
Mother Earth Doesn't Wear Lipstick - Coleman/Ford
Do Not Pass Go - Ford/Kostabi
The Music Between Us (Version for Baritone & Guitar) - Ford/Pritsker
Statue Down (What Will the Pigeons Do?) - Coleman/Ford
The Biggest Lie (Trickle Down) - Ford/Pritsker
Personnel
Robert C. Ford - spoken word
Gene Pritsker - electric guitar
Todd Rewoldt - saxophone
David Taylor - bass trombone
Charles Coleman - baritone
Geoffrey Burleson - piano
Lynn Bechtold - violin
Michiyo Suzuki - clarinet
Mark Kostabi - piano
Berzan Önen - vocals
Ibadi - backing vocals
Francesco Coppola Bove - drums
Clemens M. Rofner - bass guitarMixed by Gene Pritsker except ‘The Biggest Lie (Trickle Down),’ mixed by Konstantin Ladilov.
Mastered by Ehab Omar.
Cover art by Mark Kostabi.
Cover design by Octavio Maya Rocha.
“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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