carrying - newt red vinyl

• artist: sally anne morgan
• size: 12 in / 30.48 cm
• features: "the center", "summerwater", "awake" and more
• catalog number: thrill jockey records, thrill-597 - 2023

estimated shipping date: within 7-10 days from date of purchase

about this music:

Carrying tills the rich soil of Appalachian traditions and Sally Anne Morgan’s rural North Carolina surroundings into warm, reflective songs about navigating challenges, as well as the most joyous and personal emotions surrounding Morgan’s own pregnancy and recent birth of her first child. “The process of creating this album was intimately connected to the process of conceiving and birthing and raising a child,” says Morgan.

Carrying finds unity in life’s burdens and joys, shared experience of our day-to-day lives. "So much of what we accumulate and carry around with us burdens us, but we also can’t or don’t know how to let go," says Morgan. The album weaves a thread of common experience wrapping the listener in the intimacy of emotional response while simultaneously demonstrating the universal nature of many of these moments. Says Morgan, “I use my own music, the creation, formation and shaping of songs and compositions, as a way to explore and articulate the deepest, often most hidden and spiritual, parts – of myself, but also since we are all connected at the deepest level, it reaches a common connected force of some kind.”