"I'd encourage you to listen to the entire album straight through. 'River Green' bookends the album and there is a flow with the tunes, with bird and cricket sounds speckled throughout. 

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The album is half instrumental, with singing on 'River Green,' 'Like a Desert Flower,' 'Solitude,' and 'River Green Reprise.' Songs were written in the span of a month in 2023, with all the instrumentals on my solo flat water river trip on the Green River in Utah. The music to 'Like a Desert Flower' was written by David Ian Baker. 

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The album was recorded outside Sage Hen Jewelry's house up Tollgate Canyon in the summer with David Baker, Grayson Wickel, and Ben Weiss. Many of the tunes were workshopped day-of and still have a rawness that I find very endearing. We spent all day recording, eating snacks, chasing chickens, hearing the beautiful birds, and watching the aspen trees sway. 

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I hope is gives a little taste of summer and calmness."

--Melissa Chilinski

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Catalog #: WMR2401