Village Lights - Piano 2001-2002

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1.	The Second Stroll 02:19	buy track
2.	Those Days 04:02	buy track
3.	The Only Way Out 01:54	buy track
4.	Falling Forward Again 02:52	buy track
5.	Round and Round 02:33	buy track
6.	Hill 02:16	buy track
7.	The Curve 01:44	buy track
8.	Twice 02:22	buy track
9.	Looking Out 03:07	buy track
10.	Night 02:15	buy track
11.	Minding My Own 02:19	buy track
12.	From the Red to the Blue 03:42	buy track
13.	Another Way 01:00	buy track
14.	In the Shadow 02:05	buy track
15.	A Sparrow In Flight 02:32	buy track
16.	December 01:46	buy track
17.	The Sad and Glorious 02:41	buy track
18.	Sneaking Bird 03:08	buy track
19.	Sparrow March in D 02:00	buy track
20.	Angela 03:20	buy track
21.	A Spiral To March 01:03	buy track

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Plunked out on an 80s HP series Roland digital piano in a West End apartment long ago, the remastered tracks in Village Lights evince a musician’s tinkerings wrought into treasure. While playing piano for Destroyer’s early lineup, Jason Zumpano turned out music on the side, an undertaking that produced a tantalising mix of moods, kinesthetic locales, and balancing acts of styles. Imagine Vince Guaraldi jazz under the feet of the Peanuts characters decades later trailing them through marriages, divorces, firings and hirings. Imagine being chased by a bird wearing a mask of your first boss’ face. Picture if you will breezy summations of a sunny afternoon. This is the music of an off-kilter adulthood that remembers innocence and levity while acknowledging the brunt of experience. Through midi-patching the Roland with cello, flute, strings, organ, and harpsichord, Zumpano sketches scenes of subtle fusions: might this track be a nod to Bach’s Three-Part Inventions? Is this a bow to Hitchcockian soundtracks, a curtsy in a courtier dance in some 70s film set in the renaissance, or a kiss blown to the keyboardist in Can? Does this track know that it will someday appear in the documentary Manhattan, Kansas? The sum total of these tracks leads to a reverie of questions. What is certain is that Village Lights is grounded in sensations both playful and profound, where the weight of the world is lightened.

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released June 14, 2022

Jason Zumpano - piano, midi instruments

written and produced by Jason Zumpano
remastered by Josh Stevenson
album cover art by Elizabeth Zvonar

©JAZ Records 2022

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