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Cyclones

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LL: This song is based on a 15th-century French hymn called “Picardy,” which we first heard while attending a Sunday service at the Captiva Chapel. Lynne Dugan, the resident organist, played “Picardy” as a prelude before the service started, and we loved its grim, somber mood. After the service, I asked Lynne for the score, which she had just tossed (one person’s trash, another person’s treasure). Back in my studio, I taped all the pages back together, and transposed the melody from D minor to C minor to have a little more range on the guitar and to fit Nina’s vocal range. There are only three chords, but I wanted to write in a classical style with tension created through voice leading to make it sound as if there is actually a lot more harmonic movement happening. I also wrote a complex, chorale-esque part that I called the “4th section.” We had to try many different arrangements of this section before we arrived at what we wanted. Musically, I consider this the pinnacle of our collaboration.

NK: At the Captiva Public Library, I picked up a free community paper that had a piece on hurricane survival. Alongside the practical do’s and don’ts, there was a list of all the “named storms” that had hit this part of Florida the previous year. A little in the spirit of “Castaway,” I wrote lyrics that drew verbatim from the article. I had never truly considered the terror that a hurricane would inflict on the community of a small, completely exposed island. There were signs of past storms in many places we happened upon, perhaps most dramatically the wreck we discovered one windy day while kayaking.

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from the sTans, released March 6, 2020
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Composition: 15th-century French folk hymn
Arrangement and guitar: Lisa Liu
Lyrics and vocals: Nina Katchadourian
Recorded at Rift Studios, Brooklyn and mixed by Tom Gardner

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Lisa Liu is a Brooklyn-based guitarist. Nina Katchadourian is a Brooklyn and Berlin-based visual artist and singer. They met while they were fellows at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, FL in late 2018 and decided to collaborate. This album is the result. ... more

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