why we love this

Like taking a deliberate pause mid-walk to admire something mundane yet profoundly beautiful: a murmuring stream, a solitary bird perched on a fence post, a patch of sunlight illuminating a small cluster of wildflowers.

about the record

Patience is the debut full-length album by Sante Fe-based artist Theodore Cale Schafer. Alternately murky and narcoleptic and bristling with grit and light, this collection of eight pieces is a delicate play of contrasts. Impressionistic settings unfurl with an unhurried gait, opening with the dreamlike disorientation of "Gold Chain" in which a degraded location recording gives way to a soft web of treated piano motifs. Schafer’s compositions are sumptuous yet unfussy, recalling perhaps the concise, vignette-oriented tape works of Andrew Chalk, which seem to prioritize spontaneity and ephemerality over preciousness and decorum. This approach yields substantive results, as on "It's Late", which marries a dolorous, clanging guitar sketch to the sound of change jostling in the pocket of a walker and the laughter of friends or passersby. This is diaristic music—rough-hewn, confessional, and teeming with possibility.

  1. 1 - Gold Chain 4:10
  2. 2 - Hunter 3:30
  3. 3 - No Piano 9:04
  4. 4 - Crowd 4:08
  5. 5 - It's Late 5:07
  6. 6 - Blue Fleece 3:25
  7. 7 - IWYWCB 2:59
  8. 8 - Hinoki 2:35

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  1. 1 - Gold Chain 4:10
  2. 2 - Hunter 3:30
  3. 3 - No Piano 9:04
  4. 4 - Crowd 4:08
  5. 5 - It's Late 5:07
  6. 6 - Blue Fleece 3:25
  7. 7 - IWYWCB 2:59
  8. 8 - Hinoki 2:35

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why we love this

Like taking a deliberate pause mid-walk to admire something mundane yet profoundly beautiful: a murmuring stream, a solitary bird perched on a fence post, a patch of sunlight illuminating a small cluster of wildflowers.

about the record

Patience is the debut full-length album by Sante Fe-based artist Theodore Cale Schafer. Alternately murky and narcoleptic and bristling with grit and light, this collection of eight pieces is a delicate play of contrasts. Impressionistic settings unfurl with an unhurried gait, opening with the dreamlike disorientation of "Gold Chain" in which a degraded location recording gives way to a soft web of treated piano motifs. Schafer’s compositions are sumptuous yet unfussy, recalling perhaps the concise, vignette-oriented tape works of Andrew Chalk, which seem to prioritize spontaneity and ephemerality over preciousness and decorum. This approach yields substantive results, as on "It's Late", which marries a dolorous, clanging guitar sketch to the sound of change jostling in the pocket of a walker and the laughter of friends or passersby. This is diaristic music—rough-hewn, confessional, and teeming with possibility.

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