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01. Norman Westberg - An Introduction
02. Norman Westberg - A Particular Tuesday
03. Norman Westberg - The Early Middle
04. Norman Westberg - La Liege
05. Norman Westberg - Once Before The Next
06. Norman Westberg - All Of Them
07. Norman Westberg - After Vacation
ARTIST
TITLE
Milan
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RM 4189CD RM 4189CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/18/2025

A note from Lawrence English: "In 2016, I invited Norman Westberg to Australia for his first solo tour. He'd been in Australia a few years before that, touring The Seer with Swans, and it was during this tour that I'd had the fortune to meet him. Since that time Norman and I have worked on a number of projects together. He very kindly played some of the central themes on my Cruel Optimism album and I had the pleasure to produced his After Vacation album (RM 481LP). [In 2024] Norman shared a multichannel live recording with me from a tour where he was supporting Swans. The recording instantly transported me back to the first time I heard Norman perform. Whilst many people know his more dynamic and tectonic playing associated with his band practice, Norman's solo work is far more fluid. Often, when I hear him live, I imagine a vast ocean moving with a shimmer, as wind and light play across its surface. Norman's concerts are expeditions into just such a place. They are porous, but connected, a kind of living organism that is him, his instrument and his effects. He finds ways to create moments of connection which are at times surprising, and at others slippery, but always rewarding. There's a deeply performative way to his approach of live performance. There's a core of the song that guides the way, a map of sound, but there's also an extended sense of curiosity that allows unexpected discoveries to emerge. Milan, which I had the pleasure to work on for Norman, captures this sense perfectly. It is a record that exists in its own right, but is of course tethered to his other works. It's an expansive lens which reveals new perspectives on familiar vistas."