silver summit

silver summit - s/t (language of stone 2008)

"...Silver Summit is a Brooklyn-based song-writing partnership between longtime friends and multi-instrumentalists, Sondra Sun-Odeon & David Shawn Bosler. they combine their love for folk music of the world with contemporary melancholic and psychedelic sounds. Much like the haunting and ethereal album closer "The Bridge," Silver Summit's earnest and captivating self-titled record bridges unexpected musical realms of light and darkness, and yet the effect is at once, dark, joyous and hopeful. " neufutur

"...Hazy, smoky, and macabre, the record's mellifluous vocal harmonies and meandering multi-ethnic instrumentation paint mental portraits of foggy Victorian streets, gypsy caravans, and Baghdad bazaars with effortless execution." naturalismo

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festival

festival - come, arrow, come! (language of stone 2008)

"On the way to the top of the mountain/ We’d been staring, inhaling the light of the sun/ All these days, spent re-telling the stories"

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lights

lights - lights (language of stone 2008)

"Brooklyn's Lights enchant on their self-titled Language of Stone debut. Produced by Espers' Greg Weeks, the three-girl harmonizing (by Sophia Knapp, Linnea, and...Wizard Smoke) combined with forest spirit mythology and gothic undertones make for deliciously psychedelic, and sometimes dark, treat. Like being stuck inside the Wicker Man and actually enjoying it." othermusic

"Lights are Sophia Knapp (guitar, vox), Linnea Vedder (drums, vox), Wizard Smoke (light show, vox, jew’s harp) and Andy MacLeod (bass) (formerly of White Magic). Lights toured in 2005 with Jana Hunter and in 2007 with Bright Black Morning Light and Mariee Sioux as part of the Crystal Totem Tour.
The album ‘Lights’ was recorded and mixed at Hexham Head by Espers's Greg Weeks." inertia

“Here, for every virginal vocal harmony a vampiric riff lies in wait, each dulcet tone risks transformation into snarling beast, and ghost-like apparitions infest the rafters, unseen but duly felt. Lights embody the mixture of pop beauty and psychedelic horror that has compelled millions to shiver in fright and ecstasy. Join us.” lights

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festival

festival - come, arrow, come! (language of stone 2008)

"sisters. we love them. we dream about them. they hold some mystical fascination for us, and with good reason. when sisterly voices conjoin the vibration that arises goes beyond even metaphysical explanation. it enters our cores and seemingly. if momentarily, triples our double helixes. that's solid science. friends. thank goodness then the Spears sisters don't have any designs on a duo record any time soon. such core breaches must be avoided at all cost! if any sister duo could contain such a disaster it would be Lindsay and Alexis Powell, otherwise known as Festival. tribal drone, backwoods spiritual, basement psychedelia, hilltop roots romp... whatever element they touch upon filters through the genetics of sisterly song and descends on eager ears like a misty rain. but hey, if you're at all in doubt, ask them to do their rendition of the song from The Jerk. believers you shall become" language of stone

blown light (mp3)

boxcar (mp3)

fair and true (mp3 de raven sings the blues)

valentine (mp3 de raven sings the blues)

orion rigel dommisse

orion rigel dommisse - what i want from you is sweet (language of stone 2007)

"Rising from the smoke of burning houses and dust of disassembled bones, Dommisse's quirkily effervescent debut unfolds like a fable. Everything about it, from the unique instrumentation - Wurlitzer electric piano, vibraphone, omnichord and electric cello form the core – to the the woodcut cover drawing of goats gathered around a well outside a lopsided trailer in the woods speaks of otherness and strange distance. And there's Dommisse's quivering, liquid voice moving like water on uneven ground, filling crevices and falling with natural gravity. Released on a new label run by Greg Weeks (Espers) and Jessica Weeks (Woodwose), What I Want From You Is Sweet takes devastation and decay and mushrooms earthy, fragrant life from it" JamBase

"...This is a very strong debut, both from Dommisse herself and from the new Language of Stone label. It belongs to the same extended family as Newsom's Ys and Fern Knight's Music for Witches and Alchemists, yet it has its own necromancing identity. It's a strange, haunted missive from the land between sleeping and waking, living and dying, folk and baroque classical music…a gentle new kind of goth for the morbidly romantic." dusted

alice and sarah (mp3)

drink yourself to death (mp3)

p.d. las cosas más bonitas llegan en momentos inesperados: Sons of Noel and Adrian ("...featuring members of Shoreline, Brighton-based Sons of Noel and Adrian play orchestral swirling folksongs about evangelism, mute soldiers, and ragwort. Not immediately comparable to anyone, they are characterised by odd melodies and almost trance inducing instrumentation").