Dave Harrington – The Pictures (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

“The Pictures” is the most sprawling, and the most personal, album Dave Harrington has ever made. It’s a love letter to the cinema. It’s a showcase for his eclectic taste. It’s a quiet nod to his father. It’s a love song to his family. It’s a heady journey through abstraction and back.

Harrington plays every instrument on the album, from his usual guitar (sometimes warped and twisted, and sometimes gently strummed or plucked in earnest and on-the-sleeve homage to the heroes—maybe Bill Frisell or Jerry Garcia here and there) in addition to a sprawling collection of percussion, drums, upright bass, keyboards, and his fretless Turkish banjo. The results are pushed through Harrington’s 21st Century Schizoid Teo Macero post production approach, leading to a collection of music that is equal parts frenetic beat-dub mixtape and open hearted “plays for the lovers” ballads.

Ghosts of film and television past whisper through these tapestries offering notes to loved ones, haiku-hymns for lost ones, and meditations on what it all might mean if we put it together. But, for some moments in life there are no words—so we have the pictures.

Dave Harrington – guitar, electronics, pedal steel guitar, acoustic and electric bass, piano, organ, Moog, fender Rhodes, mellotron, synthesizers, drums, percussion, congas, çümbüs, bamboo flute

Horn section on “The Ice in My Drink”: Steven Bernstein, Stuart Bogie, Doug Wieselman, Ben Goldberg, Briggan Krauss.

Tracklist:
01. Dave Harrington – I’m Not a Dream (02:09)
02. Dave Harrington – And I Have a Message (02:19)
03. Dave Harrington – Excess Vision (02:13)
04. Dave Harrington – Flowershop (02:33)
05. Dave Harrington – Talisman (02:19)
06. Dave Harrington – Terrible Magicians (01:50)
07. Dave Harrington – For Some Moments in Life, There Are No Words (02:10)
08. Dave Harrington – The Pictures (01:19)
09. Dave Harrington – Love of The Game (02:40)
10. Dave Harrington – My Father’s Name (02:05)
11. Dave Harrington – Such an Exciting Day (03:07)
12. Dave Harrington – They Cast a Spell on Him and Made Him Blind (01:18)
13. Dave Harrington – Something that Sparkles (01:59)
14. Dave Harrington – I Hope That He’s Listening (01:28)
15. Dave Harrington – I Think I Will, Stay Here (01:29)
16. Dave Harrington – Dancing Bear (03:27)
17. Dave Harrington – Your Best Bet (00:32)
18. Dave Harrington – If You Build It (01:31)
19. Dave Harrington – Electricity Before the Kite (01:16)
20. Dave Harrington – The Ice in My Drink (03:07)
21. Dave Harrington – Vertigo Flutes (02:08)
22. Dave Harrington – Why Did They Take Their Pictures Down? (02:38)
23. Dave Harrington – Long Drive to The End (02:55)
24. Dave Harrington – In a Weary World (01:28)
25. Dave Harrington – We Are the Dreamers of Dreams (02:38)
26. Dave Harrington – Slow Standard (03:46)
27. Dave Harrington – So Shines a Good Deed (02:37)