Arcade Fire’s own violinist Sarah Neufeld, is making an album of her own. The album, The Ridge will be released February of next year.
Sarah Neufeld teamed with Colin Stetson for their collaborative album Never Were The Way She Was. But now the artists is using some of her band mates from Arcade Fire, Jeremy Gara for one, and former collaborators for her album, The Ridge, to create singles and songs that are passionate and as barren as the cover of her album where she is photographed on the desert. Evanescence has done the same desert photographs for their 2011 album, and apparently that is a thing for some musicians and artists to use the desert as a way of going back to their roots. For some the desert could simply mean a long journey and what comes of it in the process, for others it is a exploration of the expanding horizons of other ideas to come. As trippy as the idea sounds, it almost like a peaceful moment in a person’s life when they are traveling vast distances and then seeing the desert as some Nirvana type space. It was the O’Keeffe paintings of desert caves and formations with animal bones that show the never ending fate of life and the cycle of fertility or bareness that brings us to a point of revelation in our lives.
Sarah Neufeld’s album The Ridge is available for order on the Paper Bag website and will arrive in February of next year.
The Ridge Tracklisting:
01. The Ridge
02. We’ve Got a Lot
03. They All Came Down
04. The Glow
05. Chase the Bright and Burning
06. A Long Awaited Scar
07. From Our Animal
08. Where the Light Comes In
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