"Bard's Woman in the Cool of the Summer Breeze" CD/Digital, The Swamp Records, USA - pre-order starts today.

Hello, for many people my best album is "Stoned Gypsy Wanderer", originally recorded 2011-2014, released in 2014 with Kendra Steiner Editions on limited CD-R, and in 2021 on vinyl with Ramble Records on limited (200) vinyl. Well, that might change today.

My best ever album, recorded with many friends, is available now for pre-order. If I were to recommend you all a good place to start with my poetry and music, it would be this CD.

We recorded my voice and old acoustic guitar (a Chinese Fender) in a rehearsal room at Gwarna Street in Poznań, Poland. Patryk Lichota (who also produced and arranged "Utopian Fields" for the album) was at the controls.

The album is short, it's got 10 songs on it, but there is no filler material. Each song features a special guest, from places as faraway as Indonesia, USA, the UK, or Germany (well, Germany's not that far away - and I have another pretty good album coming, recorded in collaboration with robvisual, a Hamburg-based photographer, VJ, DJ, and music producer - but more on that when the time is right...). Each artist featured elevated my really personal recording to a whole new level. Without those guests, the album would be just a poetry with acoustic guitar recording. Perhaps too simplistic and personal for any (even limited) commercial purpose.

Anyway, the album is here, released with The Swamp Records, USA, and I'll post all the links related to it in this post when they appear. The official release date is February 14 2023, but don't worry, you can listen to selected tracks right now (January 13 2023).
And, of course, pre-order the album at https://ajkaufmann.bandcamp.com/album/bards-woman-in-the-cool-of-the-summer-breeze

Enjoy!

The Strange World of A.J. Kaufmann · Bard's Woman in the Cool of the Summer Breeze (The Swamp Records, February 14 2023).