St. Silva - Forager - Tape

A warm collection of looping mediations that blur the line between electronic and the natural, merging formless exploration with found sounds in an unlikely collaboration of time and space. 

01 - And the Catbird Sings
02 - Somewhere in Between
03 - Misty
04 - Dust
05 - Something Strange
06 - On Texaco Beach
07 - Blue Heron
08 - Here Alone
09 - Little Acorn
10 - Halations
11 - Sun Flies
12 - Watching the Wind

All songs composed, recorded, and mixed by Ben Dexter Cooley. 
Mastering and engineering help from Jake Wright. 
Cover artwork and cassette designed by Nate Hicks.

Special thanks to the musical friends who gave me advice along the way while bringing this album into being: Ian Steinberg, Oskar Schroeder, and Nate Hicks. 

Field recordings for this album were taken in Northern Vermont, the ancestral home of the Western Abenaki people, the original caretakers of these forests. Bird song include the following collaborators: Black-capped chickadee, American Robin, Tufted Titmouse, American Goldfinch, Song Sparrow, House Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Dark-eyed Junco, Carolina Wren, Gray Catbird, Canada Goose, Blue Heron