Soft Power/2025 Limited Repress

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The third album by Ezra Feinberg, Soft Power, sees the composer-guitarist recruit an impressive array of fellow musicians, including Mary Lattimore, David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Robbie Lee and share the first single "Future Sand" which affirms his life.Defined by its abundance of melodies, repetitive figures and ecstatic improvisations, Soft Power exudes an enlightened and transformative spirit to empower the listener. Feinberg, a practicing psychoanalyst and former founding member of the San Francisco psychedelic collective Citay (Dead Oceans
ImportantRecords), resides in the artistic enclave of the Hudson River Valley in upstate New York. The first recordings came to light in late summer 2020, before further synthesis with collaborator John Thayer (Arp, Sunwatchers) in early 2021. Soft Power follows the previous albums "Recumbent Speech" (2020) and "Pentimento and Others" (2018).Feinberg astutely transcends the listener to an enriched place, his compositions distinguished by the profound humanity that characterizes them, plunging the listener into a wide-eyed, open and alive state of being. Soft Power is therefore Ezra's own mantra, but also that of giving power - a colorful catharsis translated into music."Invites you to a world so vivid and intricately textured that you might feel like you are part of it"Pitchfork