Half Waif - See You At The Maypole

See You At The Maypole, the sixth full-length album in Half Waif's prolifc
catalog, is a recognition of personal sadness, and a call to ecstatic
togetherness
It's gathering the colors of our spirit, in all its shades, and making something
intricate and remarkable. The ceremonial folk dance performed around a
maypole is flled with fauna and fora, with ribbons woven into complex braids
incapable of unraveling; these dances are survivals of ancient ritual, honoring the
living trees, and the return of Spring and fertility.
These patterns -- this dance -- cannot be completed alone, and so, Half Waif
welcomes others to join her, a collective of bleeding color. "We are so much
stronger for the colorful experiences we go through," she says. "That's where we
fnd our humanity and fnd each other."
While the seclusion of grief feels infnite, Rose brought the songs to her trusted
friend and longtime collaborator of the past decade, Zubin Hensler. The pair
worked away from others for Mythopoetics, carefully crafting each note and
fourish themselves but something else was needed for See You At The Maypole.
To that end, Hensler and Rose welcomed a wealth of players and friends into the
world of the record: Jason Burger and Zack Levine on drums and percussion;
Josh Marre (Blue Ranger) on guitar; Hannah Epperson and Elena Moon Park on
violin; Kristina Teuschler on clarinet; Willem de Koch on trombone; Rebecca ElSaleh on harp; and Spencer Zahn on upright bass. Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon
Iver) lent his deft mixing skills to many of the tracks, including lead single
'Figurine.'
"This wasn't just my story, I wanted to say. It was every story of loss--the loss of a
life, the loss of a dream, the loss of trust and hope and faith. A story of fnding a
way back again," Rose explains. "My own avenue back to the land of the living
was through my relationships with people and with the natural world. It only
seemed right that these songs would invite those people in to build the very heart
of the sound."

Tracks: Fog Winter Balsam Jade / Collect Color / I-90 / Figurine / Heartwood /
Big Dipper / Shirtsleeves / Sunset Hunting / Dust / Slow Music / Ephemeral
Being / Violetlight / Velvet Coil / The Museum / King of Tides / Mother Tongue /
March Grass

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