Briars of North America ~ In Death or Dreaming

In Death or Dreaming

Released on September 22, 2025
HWY-099
Digital

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Songs

  1. Shimmering Reeds
  2. Over the Lilacs
  3. Hallowell
  4. The Pride Before the Fall
  5. Little Bird

Notes

SOME WORDS ABOUT 'IN DEATH OR DREAMING' BY GIDEON CREVOSHAY
the ecstatic ephemerality of life has never been as potent as the time surrounding my father’s passing into the great unknown. it may sound strange, but I miss the clarity of that time. the awakened soul. these are songs of grief, of the love from which grief is born.

my father, stephen, gave those around him an immense gift in his graceful final dance. the only gift greater that he imparted on me, was his joyous love of music.

in the winter of 2022 we gathered in the deserted Atlantic shore of Strathmere, New Jersey to write. the stark landscape of frothy cold ocean, sand, stone, and reeds, provided the perfect landscape for the ineffable process of transmuting grief into art. oh the complete joys of grief. the spaces of the heart, the topographies broken open.

the following year we returned (twice) to the northeast kingdom of Vermont, where I was born and raised, and where my parents lived for about 50 years, a few miles from where my father was returned to the earth among trees at the edge of a forested hillside. in a house overlooking the Green Mountains, once in deep snow, once in radiant spring, we finished writing and recording the tunes on this album, each one a love letter to the lost and the re-encountered.

~~ watch the video for "Hallowell" ~~

ALBUM CREDITS
Briars of North America are: Gregory Chudzik, Gideon Crevoshay, Chuck Staab and Jeremy Thal

Gregory Chudzik: contrabass, electric bass, synths
Gideon Crevoshay: vocals, piano, fender rhodes, Hohner Clavinet D6
Chuck Staab: drums and percussion
Jeremy Thal: french horn, guitar, banjo, ney, synths, vocals

David Crowell: Saxophone, additional guitar, Prophet 6

all songs by Briars of North America, except Hallowell, by Stephen Spitzer
produced by Briars of North America and David Crowell

Engineered and mixed by David Crowell
Mastered by Chris Botta

~~ watch the video for "Little Bird" ~~