WELLMAN, IAN - On The Darkest Day, You Took My Hand And Swore It Will Be Okay

"If this past couple of years has taught us anything, it is that to hold someone closely is not something you may take for granted. The bonds of friends and of family are tenuous, as tenuous as the world that you find ourselves in. With this firmly in mind, Ian Wellman extends his hand to you and ushers you to join him leaning into the reductive sound fields of Los Angeles. Amidst swelling cascades of harmony and distortion, he shares delicate field recordings of places and events often too quiet to be appreciated. Wild fire ash falling on powerlines, the quiet thump of oil wells pumping and the gentle percussion of rusted hulks in the breeze, Ian Wellman captures a devolving diary of unsteady moments and the assurance of change as the one constant in our collective times. A note from Ian Wellman: "On The Darkest Day, You Took My Hand And Swore It Will Be Okay spawns out of reflections and realizations from the past year. The musical pieces themselves teeter between anger, anxiety, an