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Today in Bopst Design: 2012

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Bountiful folk hymn. 

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Robin Bacior & band at News Cafe, 2012 #03-0202-38

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Robin Bacior & Band at News Cafe, 2012 #02-0202-31

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I Left You, Still In Love turns four. Thanks to all those who've given it some time.

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Before The New Year

Old, old.

Before The New Year

All my mistakes, I write and fold into paper planes. And fly them away, 'til they land in the hands of someone thinking they have caught a confession, from an unknown name. Isn't it the same as a letter of love written for your flame. It's just a piece of heart from which it came, carried on a plane. Is it a time, where the selfish is stronger than the right? Like a white moon shadowed by the shine of a star, like a woman's wide open mouth, but you're eyein' her chin's beauty mark. Is it all that dark to believe regret can be kind? If there were no plight, then what would be mind, if not these scars, these beauty marks? Here December lays as, a mirror for what the year has made. The globe's parting with a phase, where I lived those hundred hungry days, and those few full nights. Is it all in spite of the starving of another man? I'd fix it if I can, but these empty hands, these hungry days.

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Water Dreams, by Robin Bacior

10 track album

“I fell in love too soon, and it turned me regretful as it can do.”

Robin Bacior is a Portland based singer-songwriter who has been putting out albums almost every year for half a decade. The body of work she has created is impressive, not only because of the level of skill and attention to detail in her songwriting & musicianship, but also for how organic each sonic transition between albums has been.

I fell in love with “Water Dreams” immediately. Everything about the album flows effortlessly. Her breathtakingly pure and sultry voice dances over piano, guitar, and sparse percussion. Also, being a classically trained cellist myself, I immediately melted when I heard the spaced-out cello performed by Dan Bindschedler featured in nearly every track.

Bacior utilizes a kind of delicate ambiguity that alludes to a cast of nameless characters and symbols. Each song feels rich with earth, rock, bone, and all the flora and fauna you could collect floating down a river. But beneath the surface lies a more tumultuous current of confusion and longing. The objects and imagery she conjures feel like a tangible collection we are meant to cling to and cherish, a sort of anchor from the fleeting memories and relationships that can slip away.

The album is accompanied with a brief description that reads,

“Water dreams are common and full of multi-faceted meaning, but in general they signify emotional change. This album is about ideas and paths not working out, and how humbling that can be to process. The instrumentation is meant to reflect various bodies of water, and the feeling of wading through your own life's current.”

Stand-out Tracks:

“Best Advice”

“Water Dreams”

“If It Does”

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My favorite song at the moment