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pre/post atrophy

Chris Alford

Label: Mystic Form Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 70:25
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Tracks

https://chrisalford.bandcamp.com/album/pre-post-atrophy 1. putting english on it 04:03 2. red bubble 02:40 3. vertebra sweep 02:40 4. kintsugi and next necks 05:55 5. spry curtis 03:57 6. hard shell 05:55 7. lionberry 12:57 8. crater 05:07 9. black belly 04:46 10. first signs 01:10 11. like ice 05:06 12. bit bones 03:51 13. black dano 08:08 14. hashi 06:47 15. thwart 03:25

Personnel

Chris Alford

guitar

Album Description

This album was created out of two distinct chapters. The first recordings were made in the fall of 2024, before an unexpected injury to my neck. The resulting nerve damage left me with significant muscle atrophy through the left side of my upper body. For several months, I could not play the guitar and grappled with the possibility that I may never play the way I once did or at all. There was a heavy weight of hopelessness and frustration. What followed was both a silence and a reckoning. In that pause, I listened differently. I carried uncertainty, grief, and a new awareness of fragility. When I finally slowly returned to playing, it was with a changed body and a sharper sense of what mattered in my music. The pieces on this album document not only how I played, but also what it means to fracture and to mend, to improvise not only music but life itself. These performances represent some of my most personal and vital playing. They are not about mastery, control, or artifice, but about honest, humble expression—a surrender to what the body can do and what the ear can hold. This music is both before and after. It is pre/post atrophy. Dedicated to all artists navigating the uncertain path of recovery—mental and physical. credits

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