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Noah Klein is a musician, flautist, community organizer and California certified naturalist in Los Angeles. “Zion” was recorded in gratitude, wonder and awe of the Virgin River tributary in Zion National Park, a space that has left an indelible mark on him throughout the years. Across two sides, Noah’s breathy flute and bansuri playing meanders and unfurls across its calming, naturalistic landscape. Accompanying Noah is Sean Conrad (Channelers, Ashan, Inner Islands) on piano, Patrick Shiroishi on saxophone and Marc Merza on shruti box and lyra-8.
From Noah— “This album is a meditation on the impermanence of everything we know to be our present, a deep breath on longform geologic process, and an acknowledgement towards the divine eternal process of nature. Mexican Spotted Owls and Canyon Wrens can be heard, footsteps guiding the path along “Angels Landing”, crickets from my campsites, and the breath of the Virgin River is the heart of The Narrows. May these tones bring transformation to our days at home, peace when we're weary, inspiration for exploration, or just soundtrack a sick adventure.”
Recorded in reverence to the legacies and spirits of: Arn Chorn-Pond, Dean Evenson, Hermeto Pascoal, James Newton, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Kat Epple, Kay Gardner, Larkin, Marshall Allen, Nawang Khechog, Paul Horn, Pharoah Sanders, R Carlos Nakai, Shabaka Hutchings, and Schawkie Roth
credits
released February 24, 2023
Sean Conrad plays piano on Angels Landing
Patrick Shiroishi shreds sax on The Narrows
Marc Merza shares shruti box and lyra-8 on Oawingwa
Noah Klein channels flutes, pedals, light percussion and field recordings
Flutes: a silver side blown gemeinhardt, bamboo bansuri, and bamboo kingflute
Patiently recorded between Zion National Park and at home on the Ballona Wetlands
Mixed by Amar Lal at Macro Sound in Oakland, California
Mastered by Collin Gorman Weiland in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Art & Design by Steve Rosborough
With love for these lands and gratitude for their stewards, the Ancestral Puebloans and Southern Paiute
4 peaceful jazz vignettes. Belt of Venus is aquamarine, with a slow, tidal energy as dignified as the sea. The aptly named plantwood is budding, emergent as flowers on dewy moss in the forest.
Stained Glass Sauna has a smoky, mountain resonance, while the Sunken Cabin emerges slowly from dust-mote stillness to tortured but deliberating peaks. The whole thing is bursting with character. Tom Colquhoun
Omni Gardens' music is an invitation to a gentle organic world where the soft melodies are warm and dappled like sunlight hitting water. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 27, 2023