Artist: Michael Arthur Holloway
Album: Strange Cargo
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Doom Jazz
Released: 2021
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Nautilus (00:02:39)
- Strange Cargo (00:08:12)
- Abandoned Boardwalk (00:06:07)
- The Coral Club (00:04:58)
- Dismal Nitch (00:05:35)
- Uniontown (00:04:26)
- Bond Street Blues (00:08:41)
- Closed for Winter (00:03:27)
- Peacock Spit (00:04:11)
- Stella Maris (00:10:43)
- Iredale Ghosts (00:04:47)
- Grey Winter Blues (00:06:11)
- Cape Disappointment (00:03:58)
- The Fort George Fire (00:04:48)
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Strange Cargo is the second full-length album by independent artist Michael Arthur Holloway, following up his 2016 noir-jazz (aka dark-jazz, doom-jazz ) debut, Guilt Noir.
On this sprawling sophomore album, Holloway hones his signature noir-jazz sound against the windswept environs of Astoria, Oregon, where the Columbia river meets the Pacific Ocean.
Strange Cargo is an atmosphere-drenched, instrumental narrative exploring Astoria and its surrounding landmarks, as told through dark-jazz: ubiquitous Rhodes electric piano, muted-trumpet and tenor saxophone leads, speakeasy piano and upright bass-- along with the wind, surf and rain of the Pacific Northwest.
Have an after-hours drink or three on Bond Street; take a stroll by moonlight through Uniontown; cross the river and seance with shipwreck spirits at Peacock Spit; meditate on life's long arrivals and quiet departures at Cape Disappointment, where Lewis & Clark's expedition reached the Pacific and turned around to head home.
This is urban noir-jazz taken to the coast-- a perfect marriage of noir melancholia and the solemn grandeur of the Pacific Ocean.
Strange Cargo features 14 tracks with a total runtime of 79 minutes.