(Music for) Twelve Goodbyes

by Nathan Hewitt

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1.	Make yourself at home 03:56	buy track
2.	I'm glad you're back 04:30	buy track
3.	For everything 06:17	buy track
4.	Love ya 06:07	buy track
5.	Keep in touch 03:14	buy track
6.	Someone will love you 03:42	buy track
7.	Until next time 04:50	buy track
8.	See you in the morning 05:01	buy track
9.	Goodbye snail 03:47	buy track
10.	Before you go 05:29	buy track
11.	How do we do this 09:02	buy track
12.	I'll miss you 05:12	buy track

about

Sometimes, in order to say hello, we must first say goodbye. Over the last two years, I have said goodbye and goodbye and goodbye: the end of a long-term relationship, a symphony of traveling farewells, and the sad passing of both of my grandfathers. But so, too, have I said hello: to a new phase of life, many new friends, and a world of adventure. In Music for Twelve Goodbyes, I hope you hear it all: the melancholy, the joy, the fear, the reflection - and the peace found when we embrace the beautiful constant of change.

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Ridgewood, Queens-based musician Nathan Hewitt has spent a lot of time in his bedroom. From the confines of stay at home orders and working from home, Hewitt garnered a fruitful output of home recordings including Music for Fifteen Emails Vol. I & II, a collection of fifteen peaceful themes and melodies inspired by 1980s Environmental Music by Japanese musicians like Hiroshi Yoshimura and Satoshi Ashikawa. Hewitt now offers up (Music for) Twelve Goodbyes, a natural segue and development of these earlier projects and his most refined musical offering to date with a dozen glowing laptop lullabies of ample emotional magnitude, thoughtful artistry, and musical impression.

The album opens with “Make yourself at home”, a nod that this music is not solely of goodbyes in a farewell sense but goodbyes the present verb– a process and patience, to make yourself while at home. Hewitt’s titles reassure himself, conjure grace, and spill over with enough to share with all of us. Coming out of years of great change, continued growth, and loss converging to now- a musical summation of solitary synthesis, rich with internal dialogue, seeking something beautiful from within the workings of four bedroom walls. Ripples come off the pier of the cover art as the context, memory, and solace of the album art maps resonate and inspire the mood and depth of this music.

Churning ostinatos of arpeggios provide a healthy soil, sprouting airy melodies in lush monochrome. There are developed musical themes, a fine-tuned technical prowess, and echoes of influences from aforementioned Yoshimura and other environmental music luminaries like Ryuichi Sakamoto or Beverly Glenn-Copeland. These songs sit patiently next to each other and we pass each one, overwhelmed with its hue, like fields of flowers. The scenery changes and in place of another swath of color there is a gnarled bramble giving way to a vacant lot. Pastoral scenes embellished and textured with jarring granular noise, trickles of delicately placed field recordings, and cheeky vocoder- a reminder that Hewitt’s sound palette includes a healthy dose of self-aware humor, emphasizing the importance of community and honesty in his music.

On (Music for) Twelve Goodbyes Hewitt invites us in with tender tones, warmth, and sincerity found across his music- a distinct blend of vulnerable themes, ongoing exploration, and a love for music and continued connection. We leave feeling soothed, having gotten to know Nathan and his music better, and inspired to make ourselves at home.

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released November 9, 2023

Written, performed, produced, and mastered by Nathan Hewitt. Album art by Nathan Hewitt.

Field recording on track 8 by Jacob Rudin.

Many thanks to early listeners Cody Putman, Jacob Rudin, and Brian Abelson.

Originally released with Shimmering Moods.

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