Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

ジム・オルークがベース及びバックボーカルで参加、殆どの録音とミックスまでを手掛けた秘蔵音源!!90年代末に米Drag Cityから2種の音源をリリースしていたロックバンド"USA"のメンバーであったBrian CalvinとDevin Johnston。バンド活動が終わりを迎えた99年、アルバムとして企画されていながらお蔵入りとなっていた音源[Some Hours]が初音盤化。ジム・オルークが全面的に協力した作品であり、簡素で美しいアレンジを特徴とするケン・ヴァンダーマークからヴァン・ダイク・パークスまでを跨ぐ一枚。







At the end of his time in Chicago, in 1999, Brian Calvin recorded a batch of new songs with poet Devin Johnston. Designed to be an album, mostly recorded and mixed by Jim O'Rourke, who also plays bass and contributes background vocals on some cuts, they were never released, languishing in the vaults for almost two decades. Calvin and Johnston had both been members of USA, the band that recorded an LP and an EP for Drag City in the two years before this music was recorded. On the occasion of The Meditations (2016), Calvin's retrospective survey of the Chicago years, he and Johnston returned to the music and selected the keepers for a wonderful five-song CD EP titled Some Hours. Sparse and beautifully arranged, funny and poignant, they recall a time when people were debating the Windy City's role in "post-rock" and folk-infused singing, and songwriting was melding with all sorts of other musical input, from Vandermark to Van Dyke Parks.