Youngbloods opens its 2024 programming introducing "Where Did You Come From, You Sweet Horses" by The June Carriers: the lead piece in a new project by Portuguese songwriter Francisco Silva aka Old Jerusalem. His forthcoming full length album, Equanimity is a stylistic departure from his prolific output, turning to open-ended guitar works that are warm in tone, measured in pace, and ponderous in structure. Equanimity casts a series of aural still lifes that reflect the wisdom (and namesake) borrowed from an ancient 10th century collection of Zen riddles. Silva points to one in particular: a pilgrim is asked what the purpose of his pilgrimage is, to which he claims he does not know, he is merely following the wind. Silva, finding himself in similar circumstances, found inspiration in the riddle’s conclusion that not knowing is most intimate.

Equanimity will be released on physical and digital formats April 10th, 2024 on Brooklyn-based imprint Youngbloods.

Images shot by Omri Ohana
Edited by André Tentúgal


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