Rosenau & Sanborn – Two LP

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RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026

After nearly 20 years of knowing one another, the collaboration between Nick Sanborn and Chris Rosenau seemed inevitable butended up accidental, an Eaux Claires music-festival lark that hadimmediate chemistry. As they were rehearsing, they realized theywere already making a record. They kept the working mixes andtitles, as well as the bird songs and traffic sounds that drifted into themicrophones. The result was 2019’s Bluebird, a little five-trackwonder that made you feel like you were sitting in the room betweenthem, smiling as they found their wordless rapport.Two years later, Rosenau (Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies ofBees) and Sanborn (Sylvan Esso, Made of Oak) got together again.They had fun during round two, but the sessions were neither ascarefree as that first attempt nor more focused in a way that feltcompelling and new. The pair shelved those pieces to try again whenthe time seemed right. Then there was a pandemic. There were tours.There were other records. There was life at large. By the timeRosenau ventured back to Betty’s (Sylvan Esso’s studio in the NorthCarolina woods) to try again, four years had flashed past.Both Sanborn and Rosenau came prepared this time by, well,un-preparing. Rosenau borrowed an unconventional guitar tuninghe’d never tried (DAEAC#D) from a friend. And Sanborn dismantledhis live Sylvan Esso rig, rearranged it, and added new bits, hoping toeschew any muscle memory for a real-time exchange. They instantlyknew it was working, with none of the past’s second-guessing intow. On that first day, a Thursday, they made “Ghost Sub” and“Harm.” On that second day, they had a false start with a piececalled “Kay,” Sanborn’s synths not quite fitting beneath Rosenau’sriff, before moving on to make “Deltas.”