A Bottle Of Whiskey And A Handful Of Bees

Giddens, Rhiannon; Shirey, Sxip; Xavier

Composed and produced by Shirey with co-production and engineering by Don Godwin and mastering by Greg Calbi, much of A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees was created over the course of the two years that Shirey spent touring the world as performer, composer and music director of LIMBO, an explosive circus arts show for which he composed the music, played the role of “head angel,” music-directed and led the band for 425 performances. On breaks he returned to New York and worked with Godwin in the legendary studio of Martin Bisi in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and it was there that the album ultimately took shape as the non-linear story of an artist living the life of an international artist-nomad—a member of a creative community of collaborators and colleagues who intersect, perform and create together all over the world. The music boxes and harmonicas with which Shirey regularly fills his pockets are joined on the recording by cooking implements, cocktail glasses, bells, whistles and whales, among many other sources of sound.

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