New Download Release by The American Spirit with Featured Track

From the new album: Season of Violence or Mourning, Protest & The Birth of Bishop Killborne

Credit: Kevin Lindblad
Credit: Kevin Lindblad

Gabriel Strycharz met Adam Morgan in Santa Barbara in 2004 while playing an acoustic set at a wine bar. They collaborated for the years that followed. Just writing and recording, writing and recording, sifting through what seemed to be hundreds of songs, like leaves purged from a weathered frame, lying exposed on the soggy ground. Finding a voice can be a sad sight.

They both found themselves living in Austin in 2008, continuing this process of searching and sifting. Then, as circumstance allowed, they met Nick Price in 2011 and formed The American Spirit. They released two EP’s and after a brief hiatus they relocation west to California and experienced a sudden burst of inspiration and searching.

What started out as a folk/rock/Americana project is now becoming something more expansive. Bound less by a specific genre but playing more with vocal and rhythmic space. The more “The American Spirit” write, the closer they get to direction, however unclear that journey is.

“Wait For The Night” is taken from the oddly titled “Season of Violence or Mourning, Protest & The Birth of Bishop Killborne”. If you like what you hear you can download the album via the link below.


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