Erik Friedlander Block Ice & Propane
Next month, master cellist Erik Friendlander will release Block Ice and Propane, a solo album of compositions inspired by the summer-long roadtrips he and his family used to take with his father, photographer Lee Friedlander. “What is an American sound, what does that even mean?”, he wondered in the New York Times. “So I started checking out American music. But I realized that a lot of what I have in my brain about America is from these trips, seeing national parks and small towns and diners and parades — everything my father wanted to cover.”