Harry Skoler - Red Brick Hill (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Things of beauty can come from the release of one’s traumas. Harry Skoler experienced the loss of a friend as a teenager, a passing that deeply impacted the clarinetist/composer and left an indelible mark on his person. On his new recording, Red Brick Hill, Skoler revisits the past and delivers the story instrumentally with an incredible array of musicians in an effort to cleanse his soul, keep his friend’s legacy alive, and to, hopefully, help others with such burdens through the gift of music.

Skoler grew up in a house his father designed at the top of a red brick hill. Though there weren’t many children in their neighborhood, Skoler was able to develop deep friendships with a young girl named Nancy and a quiet, serious boy named Bill. When they were teenagers, Bill moved away from the hill but first brought Skoler a box of his childhood toys and trinkets. It wasn’t until later that Skoler was walking with a friend and saw Bill’s mother pulling into his friend’s house.

Curious as to her appearance, Skoler asked his friend about Bill. His friend told Skoler that he wasn’t supposed to tell him anything. Pressing the friend, Skoler found out that Bill was dead. Running back to his house in a frenzy, Skoler dove into the past weeks’ newspapers, only to find an article relating Bill’s suicide. Devastated, Skoler received no solace from his parents and found that they had even asked that others not tell him of Bill’s demise.

TRACKLIST

1. Harry Skoler - Last Star, Last Night (prologue)
2. Harry Skoler - NanCee
3. Harry Skoler - ascent
4. Harry Skoler - blue, mostly
5. Harry Skoler - abyss
6. Harry Skoler - Last Star, Last Night
7. Harry Skoler - AppleHands
8. Harry Skoler - Beneath Bequeath
9. Harry Skoler - harbinger
10. Harry Skoler - here. still.
11. Harry Skoler - Red Brick Hill
12. Harry Skoler - furthering
13. Harry Skoler - still. here.
14. Harry Skoler - Last Star, Last Night (epilogue)



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