Can I Sit Here, by Armbruster

Can I Sit Here

by Armbruster

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1.	I'm really trying to catch up with you soon 03:10	buy track
2.	Playground 04:38 video	buy track
3.	No other news 05:44	buy track
4.	Anybody else sleep like shit last night 01:36	buy track
5.	Tell the crowd 05:24	buy track
6.	Night biking 06:03	buy track
7.	Lament 04:42	buy track
8.	Thank you for putting those feelings into words 03:12	buy track
9.	Us getting older and trying to literally pull him out of the past 01:48	buy track
10.	Can't wait to be chillin' again 07:04	buy track

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After exploring the vast sanctuary of an empty church in 2022’s Masses, Armbruster inhabits a new setting with polar opposite qualities for his sophomore release with Dear Life Records, Can I Sit Here. The music, colored by distortion and cutting rawness befitting its subject matter, was created and recorded live in mono in the small back room of an apartment. Acoustic violin takes a backseat to Armbruster’s heavily distorted electric violin on this record as he improvises over textures simultaneously warm and dissonant. It is a reflection on loss and the feelings that follow a death, the delicate balance between despair, celebration, nostalgia, isolation, and kinship.

Armbruster is based in Troy, NY and is behind a multi-faceted body of work exploring performance art, electric violin, Irish fiddle, traditional music, field recording, dance, and theatre. In addition to his solo projects, he plays electric violin and guitar for Blue Ranger, is a member of Hold On Honeys, and performs and records with numerous other artists in the capital region. He was musical director and lead composer for Troy Foundry Theatre’s original musical, City of Myth: Illium Sings. Outside of performance, Armbruster is a cartoonist and music educator, and proud parent of a 4-year-old.

Can I Sit Here is dedicated to Andrew Napierski, who would’ve wanted something funny to be written here.

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released February 16, 2024

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Armbruster Troy, New York

Connor Armbruster is a composer and violinist who is talking to old churches while exploring spacial improvisation, organa, spoken word, trad music, and "found footage freak folk."

Troy, NY.

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