weasel

the roof

dark skies

W-S Burn

(picture sneakily stolen from whiskeyandapples.com)

"The tape hisses, a guitar strikes one note at a time like a funeral dirge, and then her dark melody begins. In the background you can hear a distant church bell ring three times and it's not some post production trick."
Whiskey and Apples.

I was searching on e-bay for Josephine Foster related things, and one of the top results was a bootleg for a band called W-S Burn (JoFo was mentioned as a comparative artist).
Having never heard them, I set about searching for what I could. There doesn't seem to be an official site, but there are a few pieces on them at whiskeyandapples.com, and they have apparently toured with The Weird Weeds.

I can vaguely confirm the comparison to Josephine Foster, but I'd say that was probably made simply because W-S Burn features a woman singing over acoustic instruments. The songs are so lo-fi that they radiate an immediate comfort and sense of peace. I can hear some similarities with Jana Hunter (when she does her lo-fi static recordings), but there is also a slight smacking of Beth Gibbons in there too (again, during her quiet moments).

Curl up in a ball and enjoy!
(these links are to mp3s at 128kbs, but they are available at different bitrates from the link at the bottom of the page)

from 'Candy Striper'
1. Facing North
2. Spring Comes
8. Thread

from 'Two Dreams Tucked in Tight'
3. Augustine
7. Two Dreams Tucked in Tight
8. Five Faces Waving in the Wind

from 'Tightrope Walker'
5. Honeysuckle Vines
7. Wishlists
10. Time to Leave the Ball


take a look through puzzle.suchfun.net for lots of free mp3s from various artists that are both familiar and new

the green green hills of Steeple Morden

just playing with prettyness
looks quite 'Microsoft' to me

cube #3

My third attempt at encasing a plant in a cube frame.
I made this one pure white in an attempt to make it appear more clean and clinical to parrallel the theories of laboratories and animal testing.

A shrub dies more slowly once it has been up-rooted, so I shall continue to use them rather than the flowers that I had originally planned on using.

I shall end with a series of similar cubes made at different times (perhaps every two weeks), to have a time line of the degredation of nature once human influence has been applied.

Drekka

"What is Drekka? Who is Michael Anderson? Well, he's a musician. Some kind of modern folk singer in a way. Like americana complimented by street noise listened to in a reverb chamber. I don't know, maybe that's on the right track, at least to explain the music."
Brian John Mitchell, QRD magazine

from 'Extractioning'
2. Love Without Sound
3. What Would the Community Think?
11. Entitled

from 'Take Care to Fall'
3. Fractured
4. No One Knows Your Dog's Name

VPRO session 2002
Thirty-three Years Will Not be a Long Time

from 'The Poor Minstrels of Song and the Temple of the Moon Vol.1'
15. Minute Prologue


bluesanct.com/bands/drekka
bluesanct.com

steps

Kiss The Anus of a Black Cat

(picture sneakily stolen from kindamuzik.net)

Surely the name is enough to get you curious...
"...my musical approach and interest goes out to religious and shamanistic music, be it buddhist, krishna or american indian music. Not because of it's contents but because of it's repetitive, mantra, dronelike character. I tried to create this timeless, trancelike atmosphere which you can find in religious music through using non-western instruments such as harmonium, tanpura, bowls and bells and repetitive singing. I very much enjoy their rattling and clanging."

from 'If the Sky Falls, We Shall Catch Larks'
Sevenfold (rm)
Nihil, as in Nihilism (mp3 clip)
Almost, Silver (mp3 full song)


kattengat.be
kraak.net