SAINT DIRT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Abandoned Ballroom
1 As America Crumbles, I Sit in My Room Dreaming Up Silly Songs
4 Holy Bubble
5 Staying Home Every Night
6 Lullaby for Naughty Children
7 Lidia's Attached to the Stars
8 So Cry
9 Sara, Move with Me to Canada
10 Goodbye Ting
11 Raccoon and Skunk Fall for Each Other
All music © 2011 by Myk Freedman, SOCAN
Wes Cheang - acoustic guitar
Ryan Driver - analog synthesizer
Myk Freedman - lap steel
Tania Gill - piano & melodica
Julia Hambleton - clarinet
Kai Koschmider - alto saxophone
Jake Oelrichs - drums & glockenspiel
Mike Overton - bass
Produced by Jean Martin
Recorded July 25 2009 by Jean Martin & Jeremy Darby
at Canterbury Music Company, Toronto, Canada
St. Dirt Elementary School is a little big band; it's a salon orchestra; it's a cabaret pitband; it's a New School concert band half-remembering old school psychedelics in a district West of Weimar and North of San Antonio. It is both public and private. It can swing like a Kollektief or shamble like a seaside sinfonia. St. Dirt Elementary School plays compositions: rubberband exotica, bouncing like bamboo windchimes dangling from the hood of a springloaded pram.
"A great group of zanies here."
-John Zorn
"Lap-steel whiz Myk Freedman excels at intensely evocative instrumentals that draw on Dixieland, klezmer and avant-garde jazz. His aesthetic is wistful yet subtly surreal."
-Time Out New York
"Freedman’s ballads are some of the most gorgeous music in jazz right now."
-David Dacks, Exclaim! Magazine
