microphones in the trees: inca ore
Showing posts with label inca ore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inca ore. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

my estrogeneration

"First ever not not fun vinyl compilation finds the spotlight landing fairly on the fairer sex, and the glare is glorious. 11 diverse femme musical energies corralled across 12 inches of black vinyl, all exclusive contributions, and the breadth of zones and interzones traversed is a beautiful thing to hear. Carry on my wayward non-sons. LPs in jackets with artwork by Pocahaunted bassist/scholar Diva Dompe, plus a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500. This year's Estrogeneration includes: Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Pocahaunted (vintage unused track from Gold Miner's Daughters sessions), Inca Ore, Topaz Rags, HNY, Talk Normal, Islaja (featuring Samara Lubelski and Blevin Blectum), L.A. Vampires, U.S. Girls & Valet" nnf

Sunday, October 11, 2009

inca ore

"Nine new narco-beatific tone-poems cut straight from the dreamer’s cloth. Eva Saelens’ deepest inquest into the Inca realm to date. Beautiful and bizarre." animal psi
"...2009 finds her offering up another psychic harvest unto the world, Silver Sea Surfer School, a new nine-song pipeline ride that floats through a whole new web of voice orbs and tape hiss and keyboard balladry. If anything, Silver Sea is Eva Saelens’ weirdest hour, layered in abstract environments, whispers, distant poetry, free percussion loops, with sudden passages of heart-dissolving ghost-piano beauty (“Shine On From The Heaven Above,” “Adventure In Light”). Heavily impressive, and a brave pearl-dive into even more personal waters for the Inca Ore lifeforce. LPs come in jackets with art by Saelens, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 500 (40 on clear ocean-water vinyl, 180 on marbled blue/white, 280 on black). cd edition available on Acuarela." not not fun

Sunday, October 12, 2008

grouper / inca ore

"...Grouper's ethereal vocals and plaintive piano backings bring to mind pictures of slow-motion funerals held in rainy, misty forests. As lovely as it is, it's making me a bit too relaxed to carry on typing so I'll move on to the Inca Ore tracks.. I liked the lp they had out on Weird Forest a few months back and the stuff included here is similarly atmospheric. It's mostly very, very minimal and quite like listening to a sleepy child trying to sing themselves to sleep. Some serious voice worship going on here.." normanrecords
"Eva y yo nos conocimos la primera vez que estuve en Portland. Desde entonces, tocamos y componemos música juntas con algunos amigos. También compartimos casa durante una temporada en Oakland. Llevábamos un tiempo hablando sobre hacer un split juntas. Siempre me gustó mucho su música, y había escuchado sus nuevas canciones, cosas que había grabado ella sola...pensé que sonaba realmente intenso, bonito de verdad. Era una música un tanto extraña sobre estar en un lugar lejano, como en una especie de prueba o viaje del que sacas algo en claro. Mientras grababa mis canciones, recibía sus mails desde México, lugar al que había huido precipitadamente, sin planes ni motivos. Me hablaba de fiebres, de la sensación de sentirse feliz o abandonada en un lugar desconocido. Yo estaba pasando el invierno en Portland, sintiéndome muy sola en una ciudad nueva para mí; era esa clase de soledad que sientes dentro de ti, cuando te encuentras sola incluso estando rodeada de gente." Liz Harris (Grouper)

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

inca ore

"This one has been a dream since the start. Literally, as Eva Saelens wrote us one day out of the clearest blue saying she had a dream one night that she sent us her brand new album and that we fell in love with it and released it. Well the dream’s become reality, as her latest spirit quest in pursuit of the inmost voice dazzled us instantly and lingered like déjà vu. An 11-song slideshow of psychedelic secrecy, rippling whispers, and private ghost ballads, Birthday of Bless You finds Inca Ore at her most lithe and longing, shifting focus from microscopic mood meditations to wide-lens surrealist romance fantasies in a heartbeat, then back again. A black-lit bedroom soon forgotten, a midnight garden of lucid sound, an LP to have and to hold. Mastered for wax by Pete Swanson. Black vinyl in jackets with collage-art by IO, plus a full-color 11x11 collage insert. Edition of 500." nnf

Thursday, April 26, 2007

inca ore

"Rattling, whispering, rasping, murrrrrmurrring, hammering and screaming, quietly tapping, squeaking, moaning, then squawking and howling in pain, unable to get the door open, shaking, buzzzzing, chanting, breathing, crying out, a flute here and then gone, piano notes, The Birds In The Bushes is a confusing secret told to those not looking for melody and lyrics, rhythm and song." soundproof

"Inca Ore is the solo voice of Eva, the singer of such fine bands as Alarmist and Malibu Falcon. Inca Ore travels the cosmos on firey phoenix mattresses with the voice of a goose-quilled cloud pillow siren calling to all the constellations in the universe. Eva uses her vocal range and delay complement to create the sounds of entire sorceress covens through her lone voice. Lovely psychedelic drone mixed with narcoleptic folk. An enchantress of the highest order! Side A was previously issued as a CD-R in a small pressing of 100 copies on the Collective Jyrk label. The b-side is a brand new track consisting of one astounding, 18-minute interstellar vocal trance-out" weird forest

"..Eva takes her haunting sing song vocals and drenches them in reverb and echo and delay, letting them pile up and swirl aimlessly, a rich thick soundscape of melody atop melody, vocals moaning and keening, all smeared into a super primitive, yet somehow super lush expanse of creepy psychedelic dreaminess, drifting and shifting and nearly ambient at points, but just as often buried beneath a fuzzy layer of downtuned guitar grit, a thick morass of ghostly sounds and sludgy atmosphere. Like hearing some lost transmission from the other side, broadcast from another plane, through your crappy beat up old radio, wraithlike music, seeping like smoke through that tiny speaker, the original transmission muddied and hard to recognize, wrapped in fuzzy indistinctness and ectoplasmic detritus. Real nice" aquarius

"en algún punto entre entre la princesa de Finlandia Kupuu y la reina de las nieves Fursaxa, las suaves composiciones de Inca Ore son como un yunque escondido en una almohada. en la superficie, parece que todo está bien y hay una sensación de orden. pero en cuanto escarbas, el golpe te noquea. "Rainbows and Inca Teeth" es sin ninguna duda la pieza clave del disco y conjuga todos esos elementos de colores difuminados. los tensos bucles de voz (que suenan como si Eva dijese "miau" una y otra vez) son penetrantes. es como si sus canciones fuesen una en cuanto las envuelve con su voz, una voz que te arrolla y te contagia. te desconcierta. al final, baja el volumen de su voz hacia un aullido de tenor. su registro vocal es impresionante y es lo que más me recuerda a Tara Burke. "Brute Nature vs Wild Magic" es uno de los mejores debuts del 2005. no puedo esperar a ver cómo será lo próximo de Inca Ore. 8/10" brad rose

Eva aka Inca Ore y su inseparable Oso de Limón alquilan una cabaña en la costa de Oregón, improvisan durante horas y les sale alto tan bonito como The Birds in the Bushes. no sé si me gusta tanto como Tara Burke o Jonna Karanka...pero sus cortometrajes sobre la magia, el misterio de la curación, el weird folk y la naturaleza, entrelazados en ese Brute Nature vs Wild Magic que describe Brad Rose, ya merece un lugar destacado entre los discos especiales y esenciales de Fursaxa y Lau Nau. splits compartidos con Tom Carter, Starving Weirdos y Leslie Keffer (que todavía no he podido escuchar y que según ruido horrible impresiona), y un sonido único, al límite, capaz de estremecer e inundarlo todo sólo con su voz, en la estela de inclasificables como Pocahaunted o Maja Ratkje. folk lunático ('the birds in the bushes' de la pe a la pa), folk reverberante ('solo for voice'), folk arrastrado y chirriante ('kids only jail'), folk hindú ('lesson at yosemite gravity'), aquelarres ('rainbows and inca teeth'), movimientos sísmicos de la conciencia ('40 queen'), maullidos, murmullos y campanillas ('ok, now's the time'), hermosas miniaturas folk ('Poppy Tea') y la influencia palpable de Tara Burke que revolotea sobre todas sus canciones.

the Garden of the Awakening Orchid (mp3)