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(c)2005 Ezra Goetzen
  
 

Homing Patterns (2008)


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Available in Portland at:
Sanborn's Restaurant
Tender Loving Empire
Everyday Music
Music Millenium.

1. S.T.I.L.L. (R. Wallsmith)
2. Awesome Hawk (R. Wallsmith)
3. Seven Swans (Sufjan Stevens)
4. Crane (R. Wallsmith)
5. Dirty Bourbon (J. Cunningham)
6. X (R. Wallsmith)
7. Beware the Pneumatic Nailer
8. Early Morning (R. Wallsmith)
9. Inner Dialogue (R. Wallsmith)
10. Washington Park - Eastbound (Cunningham / Wallsmith)
11. Crane - Reprise (R. Wallsmith)

Reed Wallsmith - alto sax
Sly Pig - tenor sax
Rebecca Sanborn - keyboards, piano
Keith Brush - acoustic bass
Ji Tanzer - drums
w/ guest, Ila Cantor - guitar

Recorded by Jason Powers
Mixed by Gus Elg
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk
Design by Dylan McConnell


 

Lift Music! Flown Music! (2007)


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Available in Portland at:
Sanborn's Restaurant
Tender Loving Empire
Everyday Music
Music Millenium.

1. Returning to Portland (R. Wallsmith)
2. Aluvión / Song for Audrey (R. Wallsmith)
3. Polaris (C. Westmoreland)
4. Cristo de Palacagüina (C. Mejia Godoy)
5. Coming Up Roses (E. Smith)
6. Dear Howard (R. Wallsmith, words: N. Alvarado-Greenwood)
7. Greenwood (R. Wallsmith)
8. Thirty Ought Six Circus (R. Wallsmith)

Reed Wallsmith -alto sax, keys, vocals, production; Rebecca Sanborn - keys, piano, vocals; Keith Brush - acoustic bass / electric upright; Ji Tanzer - drums; Adam Hurst: - cello; Nico Alvarado-Greenwood - poetry; Sadie Wallsmith - vocals; Billy Ashmun - vocals)

Cover design: Austin Sellers
Photography: Erica Lord

Reviews
 

Blue Cranes Demo (2004)


  1. Running Out (R. Wallsmith)
  2. .30-06 Circus (R. Wallsmith)
  3. A Nicaragua (R. Wallsmith)
  4. Crane (R. Wallsmith)

(live at Tugboat, April and June 2004. Reed Wallsmith - alto sax, Johannes Haage -guitar on 3 & 4, Keith Brush - bass, Ji Tanzer - drums)

 

   

BLUE CRANES ~ live tracks

S.T.I.L.L. (Reed Wallsmith)

(live @ Mississippi Studios, Portland, February 10, 2007. Reed Wallsmith - alto sax, Joe Cunningham - tenor sax, Rebecca Sanborn - keys, Bill Athens - bass, Ji Tanzer - drums)

Early Morning (Reed Wallsmith)

(live @ PDX Pop Now! Festival, Portland, August 5, 2007. Reed Wallsmith - alto sax, Joe Cunningham - tenor sax, Matt Postle - trumpet, Rebecca Sanborn - keys, Keith Brush - bass, Ji Tanzer - drums)

Polaris (Charles Westmoreland)

(live @ Mississippi Pizza, July 8, 2007. players same as Dirty Bourbon)
 

 
     
 

OTHER PROJECTS
 

The Reed Wallsmiths EP (2003)


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  1. Returning to Portland
  2. .30-06 Circus
  3. Greenwood
  4. A Nicaragua (w/ Donnie Machado, loops)
  5. Cristo de Palacagüina
  6. Song for Audrey (w/ Jane, viola; Michael Papillo, bass

(R. Wallsmith - sax, piano, keys, drums, vocals, compositions except #5 written by Carlos Mejia Godoy.)
recorded on 4-track. (c)2003 Reed Wallsmith.

 
   

Long Walk (R. Wallsmith)

(February 2007. Reed Wallsmith - alto sax, accordion, piano, sound editing)

Song for Charlie (R. Wallsmith)

(February 2007. Reed Wallsmith - alto sax)

Carnival Rain (R. Wallsmith)

(2005 - pdx. Billy Ashmun - vocals, Reed Wallmsith - sound design, alto sax)

Needle in the Hay (E. Smith)

(2004 - pdx. Reed Wallsmith - alto sax, keys, drums, sound design)