''The Boarder's Door'' is the second studio album collaboration by

Chris Brokaw Chris Brokaw (born August 1, 1964) is an American musician, best known for his work with the bands Come (American band), Come and Codeine (band), Codeine. Life and career While studying at Oberlin College, Brokaw met many people who became figu ...

and

Geoff Farina Karate is an American band, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, with Jeff Goddard joining in 1995. The band split up in 2005 before reuniting in 2022. The band is characterized by fusion of ...

as a duo. __TOC__

Background

The album was released on

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in late 2010. As ''The Angel's Message To Me'', the album includes several covers; yet, unlike its predecessor, ''The Boarder's Door'' predominantly consists of original songs by Brokaw and Farina. The songs were recorded by Brokaw and Farina between the months of June and August 2010 in

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, Chicago,

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, and

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, and was subsequently mastered by Matthew Barnhart at The Echo Lab, Denton, Texas. Released as a limited edition album for sale during the duo's 2011 European Tour, ''The Boarder's Door'' features eleven demos: four original compositions by Farina and a cover, recorded by him in Chicago; three original compositions by Brokaw and a cover, recorded by him in hotel rooms in Berlin, Faenza, and Vienna. "Little Maggie" and "Try Me One More Time", two further covers, were recorded on a veranda in Vasto, Italy. Brokaw would go on to re-record "Criminals" and "Into the Woods" for his 2012 solo LP '' Gambler's Ecstasy'', whilst Farina would rework "Prelapsarian", "Hammer and Spade", and "The Dove and the Lamb", for inclusion in his 2012 album ''The Wishes of the Dead''.

Track listing

Personnel

– Guitars & vocals *

– Guitars & vocals ;Additional personnel * Jens Janson at Array – Cover design * Chris Brokaw –

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* Matthew Barnhart – Mastering

Critical reception

Noel Gardner, in his positive review of the album for

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, stated that ' the best way possible, all the songs here kind of feel like standards', whilst Owain Paciuszko, writing for God Is in the TV Zine, referred to the album as a 'snapshot of two incredibly talented musicians perfectly at ease with themselves and playing beautiful, exciting and enriching music,' granting it four stars out of five. Matthew Horton's review of the album for The Line of Best Fit asserted that 'Brokaw and Farina are guitar virtuosos without being overly showy – there's nothing else here but their playing and their exchange of voices, and one never overpowers the other, the guitar as eloquent as the vocal'; Similarly, Delusions of Adequacy's review of ''The Boarder's Door'' asserted that ' ether together, apart or just in the same vague vicinity, it's clear that Chris Brokaw and Geoff Farina's talented tributaries have entwined here masterfully once more, for a collection that comforts as much as it challenges.'

References

External links

Chris Brokaw official site

Geoff Farina official site

Damnably.com
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Boarder's Door review

Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina artist profile
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