Cargo Records

The Sand That Falls

Garwood returns with his first album for Fire records. Recorded in a vast, deserted house that was as much building site as abode, it’s soon apparent that The Sand That Falls is aptly named. For as Garwood picks his blues and murmurs his songs, time vanishes as he transports you to a world soundtracked by sparse plucking, gentle percussion and his deep, thoughtful vocal.

Though steeped in the blues and deeply influenced by his hero Thelonious Monk, Garwood never becomes distracted into reverential homage. There’s a fractured, lo-fi feel to what he does, an unconcern with rigid adherence to tradition. In the scattered sounds and meditative feel, the space in which The Sand That Falls was recorded almost becomes audible in the music.

On final, title track, made up of hums and the anxious, repeated banging of a drum, Garwood intones “leave no trace... leave no trace...” So Duke Garwood leaves us, yet again wandering forth in search of musical pastures new.

1.May I Rumble
2.Mellow Trucker Lady
3.I Bared My Chest
4.Reap The Many Fruits
5.The Horror
6.Ho Diddi
7.Deep In The Outside
8.We Make The Leap
9.Confidence Makes Love
10.The Sand That Falls