bambilyn
I whole-heartedly agree with TSMM....I only add that it is entirely delicious! My only gripe is that it is over much too soon. I play this first in the mornings as I begin my mixed media projects, helps me stay focused. A big thank you to Dan!
Favorite track: I Have Found It.
TheSlowMusicMovement
Big thanks to one of my favourite new blog discoveries Petal Motel for hipping me to Adeline Hotel's new LP for Ruination Records. Like a vivid & most pleasant dream, guitar notes suddenly appear twinkling all around, before slowly settling into a snug, winter warming ambient folk blanket. Honestly this album has made my weekend.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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10" Limited Edition Lathe Cut
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
~ Good Timing in full and on vinyl for the first time ~
Includes unlimited streaming of Good Timing
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited edition lathe cut 7" vinyl with hand-sewn jackets
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Clear vinyl 7" of Good Timing b/w I Have Found It with record jackets individually hand-sewn by Chrissy Ziegler. Made to order, so allow for extra time before shipping.
Includes unlimited streaming of Good Timing
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Third Pressing: Limited edition lathe cut 7" in shape-shifting vellum sleeves
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Clear vinyl 7" of Good Timing b/w I Have Found It in kaleidoscope vellum sleeves custom made by Chrissy Ziegler. Sleeves shape-shift into a new pattern with each play.
**PRE-ORDER** this pressing is currently in production with a covid wait time, estimated to ship ~10 weeks
Includes unlimited streaming of Good Timing
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited edition lathe cut 7" in vellum sleeves
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Clear vinyl 7" of Good Timing b/w I Have Found It in vellum sleeves.
Includes unlimited streaming of Good Timing
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Second Pressing: Limited edition lathe cut 7" in shape-shifting vellum sleeves
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Clear vinyl 7" of Good Timing b/w I Have Found It in kaleidoscope vellum sleeves custom made by Chrissy Ziegler. Sleeves shape-shift into a new pattern with each play.
Includes unlimited streaming of Good Timing
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Limited Edition CDs
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Featuring artwork by Chrissy Ziegler. In production, shipping ~4 weeks
Includes unlimited streaming of Good Timing
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Good Timing was performed and recorded by Dan Knishkowy, mixed
by Ian Wayne, and mastered by Patrick Klem.
The album art was designed, sewn, and photographed by
Chrissy Ziegler.
credits
released February 19, 2021
Where does a piece of music originate? Before decisions about form and refinement of material, before building up or carving down, before composition itself—what lies in this white room, and how does one find it? Dan Knishkowy of Adeline Hotel did not set out to answer these questions when he began recording Good Timing, a mostly instrumental album whose crystalline latticework of acoustic guitar marks a departure of sorts from his previous releases as a songwriter. But as he worked, he found a certain freedom in a process uninhibited by pretense. “I liked the idea of embracing that,” he says, “instead of turning this into something more conventionally polished.”
Knishkowy created Good Timing by layering improvised guitar parts, each one reacting intuitively to those that came before and guiding those that came after. Like a fractal blooming or a snowflake accumulating ice, the music dictated its own shape as it grew, a dynamic that is perceptible in the shifting surfaces of each piece. Rhythms unspool slowly, without tether to any strict pulse. Lines begin in apparent disarray, then converge for an epiphanic moment, then separate again. Though Knishkowy is well versed in the greats of solo guitar—among several possible connotations of the album’s title is a sly homage to a Jim O’Rourke acoustic masterwork—the effect of these multitracked pieces may have more in common with ambient music than anything from the American Primitive school. Low strings toll like distant bells; high ones sparkle like windchimes just outside the window. The physical properties of Dan’s instrument are as present in the music as his own hands.
He arrived at this instinctual approach while working alone at home in the quarantine summer of 2020, when more precisely arranged compositions began to feel stifling. As a reprieve, he began recording the sort of ostensibly aimless music that had often uncovered the seeds of songs in the past. By centering these embryonic sounds as an expression in themselves, rather than a route to some other end, he crafted 10 pieces that glow with intimacy and presence, vessels for capturing memory in real time. “I feel like all records are approximations of your creative process, in a way" he says, "but with Good Timing, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to the source.” - Andy Cush
I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough