"All month the moon coming up low coming up low coming up low / All month the moon coming up low coming up low coming up low / I was selfish and i was mean and i was after their money / All month the moon coming up low coming up low coming up low..."
The pressed paper storytelling, rustic bestilled pull of "coming up low" by Maine based (by way of New York) singer-songwriter Max García Conover, and featuring the talents of Paula Prieto (vocals) and Ben Cosgrove (felted piano, rhodes, chord organ), is intriguing for so many reasons. Maybe foremost for me is the patter of the uncharacteristic lyrics, chained together in uncharacteristic ways. Against, rustic, rushing acoustic picking and what sometimes feels like church piano, the words between speaking and singing feel almost like a religious folk song or spiritual (whether godly or agnostic). Is that weird to say? Is it just me?
Apart from what genre should be laid at this songs feet, I love the feeling I get while listening to it. I love Conover's vocal personna and Prieto's gentle high harmony that feels whispered as well as sung. If the Conover's feverish acoustic notes is the song's blood rushing then Cosgroves keys, from Fender Rhodes to felted piano to chord organ is the song's heart (the chord at around 2:42 - so amazing, likely a sus chord, I think) and full of lovely sustains and moments of gentle dissonance.
"I watched you dress in the soft light of the moon
I watched you dress in the soft light of the moon
I was desperate and i was hopeless except for hoping that you wouldn't notice
I watched you dress in the soft light of the moon..."
"I watched you dress in the soft light of the moon
I watched you dress in the soft light of the moon
I was desperate and i was hopeless except for hoping that you wouldn't notice
I watched you dress in the soft light of the moon..."
I appreciate songs that contextually beg you to imagine or find out what lays beneath the words, behind the lines and sonic structures. "coming up low" is that kind of song, one that you are drawn to but also is full of mystery.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://maxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/scanciones
https://maxgarciaconover.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pilipresh
https://paulaprieto.com/
https://www.facebook.com/bencosgrovemusic
https://www.bencosgrove.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bencosgrovemusic/?hl=en
Max García Conover is a songwriter from the burned-over district of New York, now based in Maine. In the past he's collaborated with Son Canciones, Haley Heynderickx, Ben Cosgrove, Paula Prieto, The Ballroom Thieves, and Julie Arsenault. In between songs he tells stories and those stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and Stories From The Stage.
When he's not touring, he teaches at a public school near his home in Maine.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://maxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/scanciones
https://maxgarciaconover.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pilipresh
https://paulaprieto.com/
https://www.facebook.com/bencosgrovemusic
https://www.bencosgrove.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bencosgrovemusic/?hl=en
Max García Conover is a songwriter from the burned-over district of New York, now based in Maine. In the past he's collaborated with Son Canciones, Haley Heynderickx, Ben Cosgrove, Paula Prieto, The Ballroom Thieves, and Julie Arsenault. In between songs he tells stories and those stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and Stories From The Stage.
When he's not touring, he teaches at a public school near his home in Maine.
Max García Conover, singer songwriter, musician, teacher, collaborator, songwriter Paula Prieto and Ben Cosgrove, bestilled pull of "coming up low", folk, acoustic, indie rock, Maine based, New York bred,
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