microphones in the trees: amen dunes
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Showing posts with label amen dunes. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

god damn, i hate the blues

"Fourth installment in our split 7” series, God Damn I Hate the Blues, presents splendid new work from Amen Dunes, Marisa Anderson, Ignatz, Nathan Bowles, Warm Climate and Bridget Hayden.
Damon McMahon comes up with a brilliant interpretation of an old Ethiopique traditional, blending his typical Amen Dunes style with a far-out etnic melody. Marisa Anderson’s contribution ‘Heat Lap’ is a rough and moving delta styled improvisation on lap steel. Our hero Ignatz keeps on surprizing. After his fourth album he started to focus on country music. ‘She Gets All She Wants’ is the result, one of his most melodic workouts to date. Also Bridget Hayden presents a new side of her work. No drilling drone-riffs here but a hazey folk song, putting the Robert Burns poem ‘Aye Fond Kiss’ to music, with her guitar and voice drenched in reverb. Nathan Bowles is one of the three Black Twig Pickers. He dreams about Alabama girls alot. Classic style banjo core. Warm Climate is Seth Kasselman and his band. ‘Tourmaline Witches’ appeared on the ‘Pigeon Brides Weigh In’ cassette on Stunned Records. Seth jams like Bobb Trimble on acid, or Marc Bolan on ketamine..." kraak

vaqueros, llanuras y montañas, folk, country y blues, radios mal sintonizadas, voces con eco, etiopía vs oklahoma soul, un clima tropical y polvoriento que lo envuelve todo, y esa canción perfecta y definitiva de músicos que ya me gustaban y otros que me gustaban menos pero ahora me encantan porque por fin suenan a lo que siempre había deseado... 'she gets all she wants', 'ethio song' y 'aye fond kiss' en bucle

Saturday, May 23, 2009

amen dunes

"A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker Dia is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon, calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that." locust
hoy es un buen día para recordar a greg ashley, valerio sartori, cherry blossoms, kurt vile...a través de amen dunes. como ellos, dia transmite algo especial, atemporal (sobre todo a partir de 'patagonian domes'), algo absolutamente maravilloso