I swore that the last time I wrote about leaving
would be the last time I wrote about leaving.
Leaving follows me around.
Leaving finds itself in my book.
“I am not done writing about leaving,”
I write in yet another poem.
Am I leaving leaving?
When will leaving leave me?
When faced with the question “who do you know here”
in the midst of a deteriorating sense of place,
I force my belonging with my answer:
“I don’t know anyone here.”
What’s your name again?
CAN YOU SAY MINE?
all tracks written and composed by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay
mastered by Josh Warren
original design by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay and Chelsea Velaga
credits
released February 22, 2020
(i) time too little (translation of Subhankar Mukhopadhyay’s “somoy boro kom”)
recorded, produced, and mixed by Joe Markferding / voice - Subhankar Mukhopadhyay / keys - Joe Markferding / song - “Koto Din Pore Ele” by Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
(ii) coller, to stick
recorded and produced by Marc Greenspon / mixed by Marc Greenspon and Joe Markferding / guitar – Marc Greenspon & Dutch / keys & drums – Marc Greenspon / organelle - Dutch
(iii) ghazal, a rebirth / ghazal, interrupted
recorded, produced, and mixed by Eric Fritsch / sitar & sarangi - Eric Fritsch / tabla - Anup Roy Chowdhury / vocals & harmonium - Sharmistha Ganguly / songs - “Phir Le Aya Dil” by Sayeed Quadri, Rekha Bhardwaj,
and Pritam Chakraborty and “Ranjish Hi Sahi” by Ahmed Faraz, Mehdi Hassan, and Nisar Bazmi
(iv) pray (or post-election Social Darwinism)
recorded, produced, and mixed by Hayden Tumlin at Robert E. Mulloy Studio A / guitar – Stephan Wieder / bass – Ben Griego / piano – Nick Messick / drums – Andrew Bannan / trumpet – Eric Snyder / trombone – Collin Felter
(v) from the bathroom at the house show
recorded and produced by Marc Greenspon / mixed by Marc Greenspon and Joe Markferding / guitar – Marc Greenspon & Dutch / keys & drums – Marc Greenspon / organelle - Dutch
(vi) Indian Sonnet Designed for My Past and Future Assassin
recorded, produced, and mixed by Eric Fritsch / tabla – Anup Roy Chowdhury
(vii) i don’t know anyone here
recorded, produced, and mixed by Joe Markferding / vocals and background vocals – Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay / keys – Joe Markferding
(viii) how can i talk if my lips don’t move?
recorded, produced, and mixed by Hayden Tumlin at Robert E. Mulloy Studio A / field recordings of several brave women and their stories
(ix) thesaurus for everything i didn’t say
recorded and produced by Marc Greenspon / mixed by Marc Greenspon and Joe Markferding / guitar – Marc Greenspon & Dutch / keys & drums – Marc Greenspon / organelle - Dutch
(x) dance ma, dance again
recorded, produced, and mixed by Joe Markferding / vocals – Sutapa and Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay / harmonium – Sutapa Mukhopadhyay / percussion – dancers at Upasana Performing Arts Center
(xi) identity crisis as country song
recorded, produced, and mixed by Josh Warren / song – “Modern Agriculture” by Neil O’Neil
(vocals & guitar – Neil O’Neil) / field recording atop Fort Negley
(xii) patria, the fatherland
recorded, produced, and mixed by Jacob Milstein / guitar – Jacob Milstein / field recordings of Italy
(xiii) when i think of you, i actually think of that one poem i wrote for you
recorded and produced by Marc Greenspon / mixed by Marc Greenspon and Joe Markferding / guitar – Marc Greenspon & Dutch / keys & drums – Marc Greenspon / organelle - Dutch
free-improvisation 4-track—all tracks based off of Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, answers given by people I love, and my own— Lagnajita
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021