Orange Hour by Joyce Kwon
"Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one." —C.G. Jung
One time I was eating an orange. When I was finished, I looked up at the clock and was perplexed to see that over an hour had passed since I started with the citrus. Had I really spent an hour eating an orange? What happened to that hour? Had it slipped through the cracks to another dimension?
I was in Korea then, spending time with my aunt whose body was being consumed by cancer and radiation, and it felt like the heavens were starting to open up to take her. I wondered if existing in that liminal space granted me access to the other side for the duration of the orange, allowing an hour of our linear time to slip into deep time.
Deep time is a concept I read about in “Falling Upward” by Richard Rohr, and I think that was what I had experienced during the orange hour. Thinking about deep time spurred me to read Carl Jung, and that inspired me to write these songs.
Tracklist
| 1. | Empty Ambition | 3:43 |
| 2. | Future History | 3:07 |
| 3. | Pause | 1:06 |
| 4. | An Emerald Sound | 3:09 |
| 5. | Jesus Christ Is Bored | 3:27 |
| 6. | Method | 4:34 |
| 7. | Prose | 1:45 |
| 8. | In Memories and Poses | 3:48 |
| 9. | Spin | 2:35 |
| 10. | Piece | 3:34 |
| 11. | UAP | 3:54 |
| 12. | You and a Song | 3:25 |
Credits
Joyce Kwon: voice & gayageum
Ross Garren: keyboards & harmonica
Brandon Bae: guitar
André de Santanna: bass
Gavin Salmon: drums & percussion
Nick DePinna: trombone & euphonium (tracks 4 & 9)
Hitomi Oba: tenor saxophone (tracks 4 & 9)
Hitomi, Jelly, Eunice & Hanni: chorus (track 11)
Music & lyrics by Joyce Kwon
Produced by Ross Garren & Joyce Kwon
Recorded & mixed by Keith Armstrong
Mastered by Andrew Garver at 144 Audio
Collaborative arrangements by the band
Horn arrangements by Nick DePinna (tracks 4 & 9)
A cappella compositions by Joyce Kwon (tracks 3, 7 & 10)
Recorded July 28–31, 2022 in the San Jacinto Mountains of California
Horns & additional voices recorded in Oakland & Los Angeles
Published by Voicekwon Music, ASCAP
Album artwork & photography by Gianina Ferreyra, o! thy fleecy.
Official music videos by Jon Pears
Creative direction & book by Joyce Kwon
Thanks to California Arts Council & New Music USA for the support
