Iron Year
Roman Filiu – Alto Saxophone
Dayna Stephens – Tenor Saxophone
Bryan Carrott – Vibraphone
Martin Nevin – Bass
Craig Weinrib – Drumset
Richard Sears – Piano, Compositions
Recorded at Vibromonk. January, 2018
Mixed by Dan Shatzky
Mastered by Myles Boisen
O harp and altar, of the fury fused,
(How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!)
Terrific threshold of the prophet’s pledge,
Prayer of pariah, and the lover’s cry,
Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift
Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars,
Beading thy path—condense eternity:
And we have seen night lifted in thine arms.
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited
Only in darkness is thy shadow clear.
The City’s fiery parcels all undone,
Already snow submerges an iron year …
O Sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God.
– Excerpt from “To Brooklyn Bridge” –
by Hart Crane, 1933
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