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Lewis & Clarke
Light Time

Album US 2009 on La Société Expéditionnaire label
Folk (Folk)

In 2007, Lewis & Clarke delivered to the world a record entitled Blasts of Holy Birth (prompting the usual tastemakers to prick up their ears, with Pitchfork praising it as "Eight Tracks of delicate beauty). Those I know who've had the privilege of hearing this record have grafted it onto their minds like little else in recent memory, taking it into their bodies like a kind of nourishment. It's a record of creation, of birth. Now, in 2009, Lewis & Clarke has resurfaced with an EP entitled "Light Time" and not a moment too soon for this writer, as I've been getting hungry again. But how does Light Time greet a palate so generously prepared by the group's past offerings? The answer is well, dear listener, quite well. You see, "Blasts..." was an epiphany in it's own right, but one spoken from lips attached to a face that tilted up towards the sky while gazing down into a terrible abyss. Light Time reveals that same face to us once again, after the self-fulfilling prophecy of it's own fall (Before It Breaks You), but now with head and eyes fixed sternly ahead. In between these two points the body attached to that face, a body belonging to a man named Lou Rogai, has slept in what can only be described as one of the deeper circles of hell and come back to linger on simply because it is good to do so. We as an audience are better off for it. In fact, music in general is better off for it, if for no other reason than to be reminded that strength is just as beautiful as weakness. For all of the whispery voiced, faux-bohemian, lilting cliches that overpopulate what we can loosely term "folk music", "Light Time" is a reminder that the heart, above all else, is a muscle. -Dr Lazarus T. Helm, Donnybrook Writing Academy Recorded at Dan's House by Dan McKinney March 2009 and at One Forest by Tom Asselin Mixed by Tom + Dan + Lou at Dan's House Mastered by Dan McKinney Cover Painting detail from "Misty Forests" by Erika Somogyi

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	Lewis & Clarke , US album by
	Tom Asselin , atmospherics, engineer
	Ian O'hara bj, voc, US double bass
	Jamie Novak drums
	Shane O'hara drums
	Lou Rogai b, guitar, vocals, rhodes, arranged by, lead vocals, songwriter, composed by, arranged by
	Dan McKinney org, hammond, piano, recording and mastering engineer
	Mollibeth Cox violin

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