Nathan Salsburg’s latest is a long piece full of silences. It runs on for 39 minutes, alternating cascades and rambles of acoustic folk picking with ruminative caesuras, the negative space as much a voice as the exquisitely clear string tones.
You might know Salsburg from his sprightly duets with James Elkington, his sung and picked folk blues adventures, his life and artistic partnership with Joan Shelley, or his explorations of Jewish mystical traditions through the Landwerk series and the 2021 recording Psalms. Ipsa Corpora takes from all of these endeavors, leaning musically on the Takoma-style blues elements of his work, while bringing in the searching spirituality of the music he grounds in faith.
The phrase “Ipsa Corpora” means “the bodies…

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