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The Anxiety Suite
Michael Barton
Label: Sign Holder Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:38:00
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Tracks
Consumption; Low; April 20; King of the Bubble; Sketch of Life; The Sign Holder; Postlude; Helen.
Personnel
Michael Barton
bassCollin Clauson
keyboardsGreg Essig
drumsJoel Ream
guitar
Shawn Maxwell
saxophone, altoRick Vitek
drumsNils Higdon
percussionAdditional Personnel / Information
Nick Eipers: Recorded and Mixed by; Joe Nino-Hernes: Mastered at Sterling Sound.
Album Description
Sometimes we tell the story, and sometimes we are actors serving as a part of it.” In The Anxiety Suite, Michael Barton is storyteller and actor … artist and subject … docent and exhibit. Through the music, the artwork, and the album notes, we follow him from one stage to another; from a dangerous grade-school musical invention to crafting artisanal basses and drums played on this record; from youthful basement recording to world-class studios and back again; from disquietly crowned king to self-imposed exile; from a Master’s in Jazz Studies, to the youngest-ever Fellow of the American Society of Photographers, to the realization that peace is – at best – elusive… from the highs and lows of overindulgence to the hallelujah chorus … “Anxiety is a strange, inescapable creature yet a necessary catalyst for growth and independence
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