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Portals, Volume 1 - Mourning/Digipack

Portals, Volume 1 - Mourning/Digipack

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One challenge of this frustrating time has been finding methods to handle grief. The loss of loved ones, enforced isolation, and abounding uncertainty have only heightened anxiety and it's painful effects. Learning how to cope with grief and work through it is imperative for one's mental health. // Saxophonist and composer Caroline Da has done much to try to allay her own emotions after the harsh period she dealt with in 2019. Da lost her father early in the year and was trying to cope with this devastating event when the pandemic descended. She turned to research and creation to work herself out again. Her new recording, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning, is a mination of a year of suffering, accepting, and channeling her mourning through a unique process to find equilibrium through composition and reflection. // Da has always found ways to deepen her musical work by allowing her current preoccupations drive the generation of her art. When her father suddenly passed, Da was stunned and needed to find a way to express her feelings. She read about grief and trauma, studying the work of Bessel van der Kolk, Mary Oliver, Resmaa Menakem, and Margaret Stroebe. Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief did not occur in a similar sequence for Da, so she looked toward the self-help and mystical teachings her father expressed interest in, even up until his passing. // Looking back on her time with her father, Da began to realize that she must deal not only with the immediate results of his passing but with the legacy of residual pain that he inflicted, intentionally or not. Living at a distance from one another, and his workaholic lifestyle, made things diffit in their relationship. Da was still wrestling with this. // A welcome aid to Da's recovery and work was a residency at the McDowell Artists' Colony in New Hampshire. At McDowell, she was able to begin spting what would become the pieces on Portals, Volume 1.
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Release Date:
2021-08-27
Publication Date:
2021-08-27
Publisher:
Sunnyside Records
Languages:
Original: English
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