Pentimento

Description

All the songs on Pentimento began as poems, written against a backdrop of global crises, borders, uprisings, births, losses, bad loves, and new passions. Carson McHone wrote them in the desert in spring and summer, then by the ocean and under the first snow, surrounded by a group of musicians gathered to bring these songs to life, sometimes improvised and recorded on an 8-track cassette recorder. The album opens with a bird call, followed by a reading of a letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson, and unfolds like a pentimento (from the Italian "repentance") on a canvas: each piece reveals traces of the past. Pastoral folk, organic rock, ghostly voices, and homemade instruments blend together in a daring and poetic album. Pentimento asks: how do love and beauty survive the brutality of the world? McHone answers with the subtlety of watercolor and the depth of poetry, creating a vibrant and timeless masterpiece.