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Far Lands is the culmination of over a decade of songwriting by Cincinnati native and Portland transplant Andy McFarlane. It represents the next logical, yet unlikely, step in a slow musical evolution that saw Andy as a high school musician and an aspiring ethnomusicologist, recording Zapotec folk music in Oaxaca, Mexico. The 2000 release of his book of poems, prose and rhymes, "Intersection" was immediately followed by a move westward and inward where he quietly documented the births of his daughters and the deaths of his parents. McFarlane’s urge to document in song served strictly as catharsis until a chance encounter with childhood friend Matt Drenik (Battleme, LIONS) made a foray into the studio inevitable.
They believed the best way for these song vignettes to live wouldn’t be in isolation, but in full spectrum, while acknowledging the power of the initial minimalism. With Drenik playing most of the instruments, they enlisted drummer Pauli Pulvirenti (Eyelids, Elliott Smith) and Ivan Howard (Rosebuds, Gayngs, Howard Ivans). McFarlane’s lyrical delivery widened, spanning decades in a morphed vision quest of love and evolution.
Far Lands found a voice in the studio as a conversation between old friends and now finds a larger audience, against the odds, through TV placements in shows like Shameless, Criminal Minds and Shrinking.
They believed the best way for these song vignettes to live wouldn’t be in isolation, but in full spectrum, while acknowledging the power of the initial minimalism. With Drenik playing most of the instruments, they enlisted drummer Pauli Pulvirenti (Eyelids, Elliott Smith) and Ivan Howard (Rosebuds, Gayngs, Howard Ivans). McFarlane’s lyrical delivery widened, spanning decades in a morphed vision quest of love and evolution.
Far Lands found a voice in the studio as a conversation between old friends and now finds a larger audience, against the odds, through TV placements in shows like Shameless, Criminal Minds and Shrinking.
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