Name: Landwerk No. 2
Brand: Nathan Salsburg

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Catalogue number

NOQ071lp

Colour

Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-05-26

Signed copies

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563156438

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Nathan Salsburg

Genre US

Folk

Label US

No Quarter

Nathan Salsburg is a guitarist, composer, archivist and writer living in Kentucky. He collaborates with various artists, including songwriter-singer Joan Shelley and guitar-duo partner James Elkington. Additionally, he has contributed to recordings by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Nathan Bowles, among others. Salsburg also serves as the curator of the digital Alan Lomax Archive.
With his exceptional skills on the guitar and talent for composition, Nathan Salsburg has established himself as a prominent figure in the music industry. Based in Kentucky, he is known for his collaborations with acclaimed artists such as Joan Shelley and James Elkington.
In addition to his collaborative work, Salsburg's contributions can be heard on recordings by renowned musicians like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Nathan Bowles. His expertise extends beyond performing; he also takes on the role of curator for the esteemed digital Alan Lomax Archive.

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Landwerk No. 2 is a second volume of compositions built around samples from 78-rpm phonograph records—in this case, two klezmer sides, one Yiddish folk song, and one tune by a Slovak miners' orchestra from Northeastern Pennsylvania, home of six generations of Salsburgs. While the first volume just happened to coincide with the first months of 2020's problematic peculiarity, No. 2 was undertaken in the depths of the late summer and early fall, when political/social/existential despair hung at their heaviest. These are musical attempts to translate the past into the present, or to redeem the present through the past, or to discover, in Michael Löwy's formulation (in Chris Turner’s translation), a "critical constellation formed by a particular fragment of the past with a particular moment of the present."

Landwerk No. 2

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