Eric Terino presents ‘Indelible Sundries (Live)’

❉ With selections from all three of Terino’s previous studio recordings, the entirety of his decade-plus career is represented here, albeit in sometimes radically reinvented form…

“It’s a very special record. This is Terino’s apotheosis; a powerful and moving listening experience.” – Grammy™ Nominated producer Andrew Batt.

Tapping into the rich timeless history of romance and poetics past, singer/songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Eric Terino’s musical landscape paints a portrait of an American artist with a sweeping perspective on what it means to be human. The deeply personal becomes universal and heartbreak can be transformed to healing. Similar in fashion to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, his tales of suffering mend with beauty. Gilding the places we have been hurt as a means of moving forward. This potential for alchemy exists everywhere, and Terino’s serenaded solitude reminds us of the infinite beauty in it all.

Indelible Sundries is not your conventional live record, it was born of necessity when Terino was unable to physically tour his third LP (Innovations of Grave Perversity) in 2022. Terino battles agoraphobia, a condition that precludes him from travelling, and as such he set about deciphering how to bring a concert to life within the confines of his world. What transpired was the process of creating a conceptual live performance through the medium he is most adept at, record making.

With selections from all three of Terino’s previous studio recordings, the entirety of his decade-plus career is represented here, albeit in sometimes radically reinvented form. Most notably the five tracks from his debut LP Mountains of Nothing In Love have been stripped of their former punk aesthetic to now shimmer with a deepened level of freak-folk intimacy. The once grungy, electric guitar-led Mark (Saint Francis Blues), a tale about a man wrongfully confined to an asylum, has been transformed into an eerie folk ballad. The new arrangement features backing vocals and an avant-garde viola accompaniment from the legendary Americana singer/songwriter Jolie Holland, who returns after an appearance on Terino’s previous LP to round out the Innovations Band on four songs performed here.

Lead single Churches Rise On My Skeleton sets an autumnal mood as the performance begins to blossom. Taken from 2018’s Champagne and Childhood Hunger, it is a meditation on the shared experience of bereavement that Terino describes as “a desperate plea for understanding, addressed from one ghost to another.”

It’s an emotional start to this imagined evening and the journey that ensues is woven together with tales of heartbreak, loss, and the search for joy and redemption. The set concludes with a devastatingly beautiful reading of the little-known Sandy Denny composition No More Sad Refrains, which takes Terino full circle, bringing to fruition the Augury of Hope presented at the concert’s opening.

The LP’s carefully constructed artwork also directly reflects Terino’s intentions for this project. The visuals feature a series of miniature sculptures created using dollhouse furniture and paper cutouts that were then photographed to present the illusion of moments captured during the “live” performance you hear on the record. Most tellingly perhaps is the image displayed on the LP’s back cover (see image below), where we see Terino’s hand gently placing a cutout of himself into the miniature stage setting. It’s a perfect visualisation of the intent behind this conceptual performance; the limitations of our physical world don’t necessarily have to dictate what we are capable of. Perhaps all that’s needed to create any world, large or small, is simply the will to bring your vision to life.

Links:

• www.ericterino.com
• instagram.com/ericterino
• facebook.com/ericterinoart
•  ericterino.bandcamp.com

❉ Eric Torino – ‘Indelible Sundries (Live)‘ is released October 18, 2024 (LP, Cass, Digital) on 1365 First Studios. Lead single ‘Churches Rise On My Skeleton (Live)‘ was released Friday August 30th, 2024. An extremely limited 7″ single of ‘No More Sad Refrains (Live)‘ releases October 11, 2024.

❉ News source: Eric Terino/ 1365 First Studios.

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