Canyon, by Saloli

Canyon

by Saloli

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josh moss This is a beautiful record that imparts a deep sense of wonder. I love it from concept to execution to cover art. 10/10

DJ Radiant Energy Pure and naturalist in sound and vision

Tom A delightful piece of upbeat synth, fully evocative of a frolicking bear. Favorite track: Yona.

humblenations Me and my Graphic Designer friends are suckers for GOOD bad design. It has texture, and joy, like a shop or hotel design that's 40 or 50 years old. It's just sort of wrong. It's nowt to do with it being retro kitsch, it's just GOOD Bad Design. Hard to explain. But this album is the sonic equivalent. Utterly beguiling and an joy to behold. INSTA-bought the whole thing. Don't miss out. It's ACE! Something pure and original.

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1.	Waterfall 05:03	buy track
2.	Lily Pad 02:45	buy track
3.	Snake 03:28	buy track
4.	Yona 04:09	buy track
5.	Silhouette 05:20	buy track
6.	Full Moon 04:56	buy track
7.	Nighthawk 07:14	buy track
8.	Sunrise 08:00	buy track

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Portland pianist Mary Sutton second’s full-length for Kranky delves deeper into her roots as a Cherokee Nation citizen (Saloli, pronounced like “slowly,” is the Cherokee word for ‘squirrel’). The album is intended to evoke “a day in the life of a bear in a canyon in the Smoky Mountains,” with each track channeling a different emotion or experience in its daily explorations. As with her 2018 debut, The Deep End, the entirety of Canyon was composed and performed live on a Sequential Circuits MultiTrak synthesizer – but this time routed through a delay pedal. This refraction adds a lyrical spatial quality, as though “echoing off canyon walls.” It's music both gentle and adventurous, curiously rooting through soils and streams, in a sustained state of discovery.

In Cherokee teachings, humans and animals are considered to have no essential difference – originally, all the creatures of the earth lived together in harmony. Canyon captures shades of this Edenic notion across eight elegant pieces, alternately meandering, pensive, playful, and pure. Sutton’s playing, as always, is dexterous and dimensional, mirroring the dazzled senses of its muse.

Her father, the Cherokee painter and flute-maker Jerry Sutton, created the artwork. Its yellow lettering is from the Cherokee Syllabary and spells “Yona", meaning ‘bear.’

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released July 7, 2023

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