Instrument / Traveler's Ode

by Dao Strom

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The companion album to Instrument, Traveler’s Ode is an interwoven series of textured, ethereal song-poems. Atmospheric yet weighted, minimalist yet lush, the album combines voice, electronics, piano, guitars, and field recordings to create a deeply emotive song-cycle that explores haunting themes of displacement and diaspora. Echoing the work of artists like Tara Jane O’Neil, Grouper, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and Tiny Vipers, Traveler’s Ode is at the same time entirely itself. As a cassette tape, the album is available for purchase below.

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1.	traveler's ode 08:16	buy track
2.	[interim] 02:23	buy track
3.	[i stayed] 07:36	buy track
4.	i have traveled 03:31	buy track
5.	activator 03:52	buy track
6.	wading into a new decade (...) forty-five years after the exodus 06:48	buy track
7.	carry/catalyst I 05:14	buy track
8.	carry/catalyst II 03:23	buy track
9.	re-membering 04:02	buy track

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Dao Strom’s Instrument is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of “voice”. Born in Vietnam and leaving the country at the age of two for Northern California, Strom’s life and work speaks to fragmentation—of/within selves, histories, cultures, groups of people, and places—yet within this configuring lies her art’s fluid mastery. Combining color photography, personal biography and gripping, restless poetry, Instrument represents a unique melding of literature and art. The poems are augmented by an album, Traveler’s Ode, of ambient and folk-tinged songs featuring ethereal assemblages of sung-poetry, vocal layering, spare guitar and piano, and field sounds from sources such as rivers, sea, jungle, birds. Traveler’s Ode is a collaborative release between Fonograf Ed. and Antiquated Future.

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released September 25, 2020

All songs/poems written, recorded, mixed by Dao Strom.
Mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk.

Also with: onsite recording on “traveler’s ode” by sidony o’neal, additional tape processing by Jim Han.
Vietnamese fragments on “traveler’s ode/[interim]” translated & read by Nhã Thuyên & Ly Thuy Nguyen.
Vietnamese fragments on “re-membering” translated & read by Ly Thuy Nguyen.
“traveler’s ode” was recorded at Satsop Power Plant, Elma, WA.
“i have traveled” was recorded in the Biopol studio at Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland.
Field sounds on “wading…” recorded between Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng and Hội An, Việt Nam.
Birdsong on “re-membering” recorded in the home of Isabelle Thuy Pelaud.

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