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| | | family vineyard (usa) #fv 21 cd the blithe sons “we walk the young earth” compact disc - the book of names (10:45)
- green patterns (7:25)
- all children´s faces looking upwards (11:28)
- the oldest living things (18:04)
- we walk the young earth (5:16)
| it was suggested some time ago (around the time that i started mms actually) that i start carrying (essentially: collecting) the various releases by the various ensembles affiliated with the mythic jewelled antler collective (which, afaict, mainly consists of only 3 people: glenn donaldson, steven smith, and loren chasse). it wasn’t until i happened upon this disc that everything clicked...
this both promises and delivers everything that is holy and sacred at the crossroads of acoustic instrumentation / distant outsider songcraft and droning / site-specific sound research. it would be neither clever nor accurate to lump the blithe sons in with sea-level dwellers from the “new weird americana” set (to me, their music has more in common with the distant, clanging in an empty water-passageway tunnel of david jackman’s long-running organum project). clearly this is a band of troglodytes, as these transcriptions were apparently made by dipping a single large-diaphragm condenser microphone into the uppermost chamber of their lair, hovering 60 feet above the band, as in rehearsal-preparation of pending equinox.
i’m deriving a certain grand (and frankly, voyeuristic) pleasure out of these wayfaring oddities, which are unlike just about anything i’ve heard from the contemporary sound-spectrum. |
| | family vineyard press release... |
| the blithe sons
we walk the young earth
fv21 cd
the third full-length release from the blithe sons, the duo of loren chasse (coelacanth, thuja, of) and glenn donaldson (skygreen leopards, the birdtree, thuja). compiled from performances that took place under a creek bridge in san gregorio and inside wwii-era bunkers on sea cliffs in the marin headlands, california. with acoustic guitar, harps, bells, harmonium, toy-amplifiers, gongs submerged in a creek, cymbals, battery-powered keyboards, vocals, banjo, birds, pipes, bell-blocks, drums, branches and the location itself as an instrument, these album weaves minimalist hymns with stark drones. the blithe sons conjure an imaginary wilderness through the sounds made within these mysterious locales, combining chasse's leanings towards tones and percussive textures with donaldson's folk-inflected melodies.
released april 22, 2003 |
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