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New Year's Eve Party of One

from Words and Silences by Brian Harnetty

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New Year’s Eve Party Of One
Merton Archive Tape 12-31-1967

This will be a sort of a New Year’s Eve party I guess from now on. I’m up late. It’s Seven O’Clock, and instead of going to bed I’m going to sit around and play some records. And uh, so you are invited to participate in this New Year’s Eve party of one, or rather two: me and my girlfriend Mary Lou Williams, but Mary Lou Williams is on a record. She is a Kansas City pianist, and uh, I don’t know how this music sounds to other people, but it’s something that I myself dearly love, and it’s the kind of music that strikes all kinds of responses in my own heart. And so I thought perhaps I would just finish off this tape by sitting and playing and enjoying some of the things that I like. And if you like ‘em, fine. And if you don’t, well, You don’t have to play them. [laughs] But, uh, I thought I would uh, make use of the remaining tape in this particular way.

Well, I’m going to conclude this New Year’s Eve party. I suppose it isn’t quite legitimate to be playing other people’s records on my own tape, but still it’s the kind of stuff I like and I suppose it’s relevant for something. This music has a kind of paradise character and a certain purity of its own. And I guess that’s why it’s so attractive and so peaceful and so pleasant up here in the solitude of the woods.

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from Words and Silences, released October 7, 2022

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Brian Harnetty Columbus, Ohio

Interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, Atavistic, and Scioto Records.

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