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Hildegard Family Hymnal: The duo of J. Pace and D. Presnell use optigans, table-top guitars, pianos, organs, flutes, synthesizers, tapes, records, drums to interrogate the ghosts residing in an old, family homeplace. Entry #1 in their Wunderkammern series.
Chesterfield Gorgeous Self-Titled: Forget the gnomic noodlings of current twee psych folk bandwagoneers, this here recording is real folk music. The works revolve around a place, a home, and how modern forces encroach upon the place, the home, the family. It is a sober, beautiful rumination on the end of an era, a beautiful study of the pastoral. Fiddle drones, melancholy ballads, free-folk guitar explorations, homemade hubcap dobro tunes. Wonderful matter!
Lloyd Wyatt untitled *OOP*: A twenty minute drone scored for guitar and organ. Pyre music. Sound as smoke. First entry in the Cropduster 3in series, and it's likely to exterminate much of the doldrums growing in the valley.
Hildegard Acte Gratuit: A collection of recordings as a trio, and quartet, where J. Pace and D. Presnell are joined by Patrick Mulcahy (Drilltone) and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors). Improvised, communal music, running the gamut of folk, improvisation, electronic, noise, and art music. Sold on Hildegard's spring tour, and likely to be released elsewhere in the not so distant future. Wunderkammern 2.
Ed Yazijian Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye: Originally released in a handmade version of 33, Six Ways to Avoid the Evil Eye, Yazijian’s first solo record, won fans such as Joshua Burkett, who has reissued the album on lp, and Dave Keenan who wrote a lavish review in the Wire. The record is a sublime blend of free folk, eastern drone, and psych, unlike anything offered by his contemporaries.
Astral Blessing St. Roch cdr: The final recording of this so-called “legendary” group, finds the band holed up in a New Orleans shotgun shack (before the flood), playing banjos, droning guitars and singing in a folk fervor, largely enabled by copious amounts of Chartreuse from the Saturn Bar.
The Saluda Grade The Auger’s Reverse cdr: A duo recording featuring Lloyd Wyatt and Sparrow Durham, mostly on guitar, fender Rhodes, and organ, whereby they reminisce on those old familiar folk themes, like trains and mountains, and corn liquor. Somewhere along the way, the train sounds and the corn liquor and the mountains take over the mix, flattening everything in their path. It’s a heavy ride, and the conductor has done a lot more than cocaine, that’s for sure. A follow up to Lloyd Wyatt’s untitled 3in, which received a kind review in the Wire.
Owl Klub self-titled cdr: When not working on Hildegard, the trio of Mulcahy, Presnell, and Yazijian often joined together to brood, hum and intoxicate. The result, ½ of which was recorded in a primitive cabin, is a release which swerves through the minor chords of British folk, the drone plateau of krautrock, and the halcyon days of early 90’s noise. Guitar, Fiddle, Organ, Drums--Best played loud, accompanied by Dickel.

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