Chuck Roth

"Is there only one room? When the listener listens do they stay in their room and the room in which the songs were recorded comes to the listener? Or does the listener go to the room in which the songs were recorded? Or maybe the two rooms come together side by side in tandem, in balance, or in parallel, somehow joined?

Songs of a person in a city going out of a room, looking. Easily walking down a familiar staircase. Foot leaving the last step before the landing. Standing briefly before the switchback, when the same staircase becomes an entirely different world leading to the next remembered floor, imagining purposefully tumbling as if gymnast down the next flight, guaranteed without harm, the arc of the body filling up space in the maximum, most efficient, most expressive way possible in the narrowness, enlarging it in fact by gesture, catching the landing after the last step.

Seven brief songs that seem to become daybreak and nightlight and open up somehow into layers of time, much more time than elapses. Songs sound like? It sounds like Chuck Roth." - Christina Carter

"This is a collection of songs I’ve written over the past two years or so. They change each time I play them live. I recorded them “live” to more honestly portray them as the blueprints that I play within. They are, therefore, not pristine objects and neither is my playing or singing pristine. I’ll keep practicing. 

I would like to thank Mark Alu,  Webb Crawford, Sasha Gordon, Michael Imperioli, Chloe Morris, Bill Orcutt, Georgia Pettit, Kevin Reilly, Micaela Skoknic and John Veranes on their support while I was developing this music." - Chuck Roth