Written & Performed by Peter Colclasure

This music was written and recorded during the winter of 2019-20, innocent of a looming pandemic. I wanted to create something calm. When the shelter-in-place order hit in mid-March, I was just starting to mix the record — a process that involved hours of close listening on various speakers and headphones, as well as frequent midnight walks to my car parked down the street to sit in the dark with a notepad on the steering wheel, deciding whether to pan a particular sound to the left or adjust the reverb. The transition from routine to quarantine was sudden and disorienting. The grocery store shelves were emptied; the streets were silent; and as weeks went by, time seemed to expand in every direction at once. “Una corda” is a musical directive that indicates the use of the soft pedal. It’s when things go quiet.

Cover photograph by Doran Bastin

Milhows played 30 seconds of guitar on "Nur Wer Die Punkrock Kennt"

Mastered by Kenny Schick at Basement3Productions

Album design by Sabine Heusler-Schick

Thanks to Kat

© copyright Peter Colclasure Antigo Music 2020