Acknowledgements With thanks to Leon Kirchner, Al Hochberg, Lisa Kirchner Jeff Hutchins, The Proctor Fund, Teresa Gilman, Daniel Emerman, Steve Epstein, Phil Roche, Frankie Fischer, and as always, thanks to In The Shadow of a Crow Susan Bush at Albany Records. Engineered and recorded at Studio El Gaucho, Columbes, by Fabrizio Fenoglietto, by Diego Losa and Emmanuel Richier at Diego Losa Studio, Paris, and by Phil Roche and Frankie Fischer at Lucky 8, Paris Mixed by Frankie Fischer Mastered at SevenSeas Studios, New York, by Steven Epstein and Richard King Cover photo & portraits: Anthony Legg Concert photo: Olivier Lenoble Paris photos: Lisa Kirchner For Booking Contact 917-338-6057
[email protected] WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM www.lisakirchner.com TROY1096 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2009 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. and steamboats on the Mississippi at dusk, unforgettable scenes in electric moonlight under a Prussian In The Shadow of a Crow blue sky. Shut Down the Moon, in 3/4 and “two- feel time,” came to me in the image of an amphitheatre of The Very Thought of You with its ethereal melody soaring over the long disappointed love mounted on a papier-mâché set, and When The Dream Is Over, is an ironic deliberation on beats, like desire inching toward a pure object of love, the archaic the high stakes of a questionable love.