Hard Work And Bad Songs (An interpretation of Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis Photos)

by José Vale

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1.	The Girl And The Machine 02:00	buy track
2.	The Kid Who Never Played 06:35	buy track
3.	Hard Work Friends 05:05	buy track
4.	Adult Boys 03:12	buy track
5.	Misery Child 04:41	buy track
6.	Friendship In The Cold 04:13	buy track
7.	All Sad Houses Are Different 04:51	buy track
8.	A Room For The Lost 04:17	buy track
9.	Bandits Roost 05:48	buy track
10.	Flower Kids 04:14	buy track

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This album is a guitaristic interpretation of photos by Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis, the idea was to play while looking at the photos, in the most genuine way possible, they are complete improvisations, only played the first time I picked up the guitar and saw the photos, it was recorded using guitars made between the 20s and 50s, guitars that are very difficult to play, just as life was difficult for the people represented in the photos.

Doing this exercise made me think about all these lives lost in time, how many of these people would have been artists if they had had the time, if their world had let them live. what would they have to say about the world? yet, thanks to the work of men like Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis, they manage to talk to us, they had managed to change their world without even knowing it, and now they look at us as if saying "Don't forget us, we have lived these lives so you can now live yours, better than ours"

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released November 13, 2023

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by José Vale
Artwork by Lewis Hine

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José Vale Porto, Portugal

José Vale is an experimental, noise and improvised music artist based in Porto, Portugal. As a guitar player, he explores his relationship with his instrument throught extended technics, feedbacks and processed sounds.

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