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Ghost Canyon

Title - Flowers From The Fray
Artist - Satsung

Following the commercial success of the band’s debut, which hit #1 on the Billboard Reggae chart and led to tours with artists like Michael Franti, Satsang’s (aka singer/songwriter Drew McManus) recent output has been a process of stripping down - removing the excess layers and filters, both creatively and professionally, and returning to something organic, authentic, and real.

The band’s last release ‘All. Right. Now.’ was broad and spacious, reflecting the soaring mountains and “big soundscape” of McManus’s home state of Montana.

Now, having made the decision to leave his label and release independently, Satsang’s new album, Flowers From The Fray (out September 9th, 2022) takes that trajectory several steps further - recorded in a secluded cabin in Southwest Montana around an open fire, which you can hear audibly popping throughout the record, it’s McManus attempt to make music the way our ancestors might have, before the music industry event existed.

Just a few guys around a campfire, free from genre, expectation, or commercial restraints. “It was really sifting through the stage of life I had found myself in which was a kind of dark night of the soul,” he explains. "This record is truly me bearing my heart.”

1. Intro
2. Alone With You
3. All On Me
4. What I Am
5. Think Of You
6. No Regrets
7. Earlywood
8. Coming Together
9. Never Be Alone
10. Workin’ On
11. Flowers From The Fray (ft. Aubrey Marcus)

This heartfelt, and sweetly organic new album opens on an, at times, unintelligible set of voicemail messages left for Drew prior to making the new record, and then we are off on running with the gentle Americana flow of Alone With You and then comes the buoyant rhythmic bounce of All On Me, the free flowing Folk/Americana of What I Am, the aching yearn of Think Of You and then we get the foot-tapper No Regrets.

Up next is one of my own personal favorites, the harmoniously layered Earlywood which is itself backed up seamlessly by the joyous alt-pop/Americana of Coming Together, then comes the forthright and melodious Never Be Alone, the album rounding out on the acoustically-imbibed balladry of Workin’ On, coming to a close on the earnest storytelling within the veritably spoken word, titular Flowers From The Fray (ft. Aubrey Marcus).

Satsang - The Making Of Flowers From The Fray

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