Conversations With the Cinnamon Skeleton

"Witty, melancholy songs, arranged and performed with such careful skill and a natural unforced originality; David Garland and his friends have done it again!" -- Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine, etc., etc.) "David Garland has quickly become one of my favorite contemporary composers. Like many great songwriters before him, he pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. He is able to take the listener through what might otherwise be quite perplexing musical architecture, and guide them along as if floating effortlessly on a cloud. 'Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton' is clearly the result of a lifetime spent investigating the relationship between notes and chords and words. The fact that Garland is not more known is an indication that much of the world has forgotten why it is we make and listen to music in the first place. If it's not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland." -- Sean Ono Lennon This album is now (Jan. 2020) available as a CD for the first time. Taking advantage of the 6-panel packaging format used on other Garland/Tall Owl Audio releases, Anne Garland's final design project was to select some images from her Luminous Playhouse photography project and put together this lovely, evocative edition.