GRIGONI, MICHAEL / PAN AMERICAN - NEW WORLD, LONELY RIDE (LP)

Michael Grigoni and PanAmerican present their first collaboration. The album's title, New World, Lonely Ride, gestures toward its meditative orientation. The duo offers a series of reflections on the zeitgeist of our present moment, the spirit of our age: the isolation and loneliness that continues to echo in the wake of the pandemic; the fractures that mar our political discourse; the uncertainty that has stamped itself on the future of democracy. The vast geography of America and the absence of a common ground, a shared political vision, have contributed to the affective landscape of contemporary American life-of what it feels like to live in the United States today.