The Ground Above Whiteley Go Away” recasting Guaraldi’s melodic

Go Away” recasting Guaraldi’s melodic jazz language in a mid‑’70s sound world

making it a defining work of late 90s pop

and the shared space between artist and crowd—making the album feel like a modular

giving the music a unified group aura

Pressed in small quantities for RSD 2023

The Ground Above Whiteley Go Away” recasting Guaraldi’s melodicThe Ground Above is Beth Ortons 2026 album on Partisan Records, an eightsong, 47minute cycle she has described as her most direct, urgent, and emotionally fearless work to date. Selfproduced like her 2022 record Weather Alive, it was crafted over roughly a year from liveintheroom recordings, keeping a loose, collective feel while Orton gradually sculpted the songs into expansive, timeless forms. Across tracks crowned by the title piece The Ground