cabinet of natural curiosities

cabinet of natural curiosities ~ blue highways (for arbors/for satellites 2011)

"After roaming the alleys of Brooklyn and the mountains of Montana, songwriter Jasmine Dreame Wagner retreated to her home in the woods to record chilling lo-fi lullabies and dark country dream songs with slide guitarist and percussionist Alex Reed Wilson."

uno de esos discos especiales y bonitos que sabes que te van a gustar, como tender buttons, asa irons & swann miller o castlemusic

foto: jula mint

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following the sun

va ~ following the sun (november 2011)

01. kentucky moonshiner ~ bill staines
02. cantina crawl ~ toby burke
03. baby where you are ~ ted lucas
04. lady with the braid ~ dory previn
05. lady blue ~ trevor swadling
06. the road is hard ~ graham davies
07. south someday ~ edgar wappenhalter
08. sunny california theme ~ michael james tapscott
09. how to collect branches ~ je suis le petit chevalier
10. prizewinning ~ julianna barwick
11. alpine valley shelter point ~ food pyramid
12. sea bed meditation ~ jürgen müller
13. crickets sing for ana maría ~ walter wanderly
14. siberian girls ~ monster rally
15. long time before this ~ jim guthrie, sarah harmer & bry webb
16. voice of god ~ castlemusic & wyrd visions
17. hey moon ~ john maus
18. violet ~ moonshine moonshine
19. stagnant water ~ shipwrecks
20. gardenfull ~ theo angell
21. under the sun ~ mia doi todd
22. wendy bird ~ haley bonar
23. fly eye ~ wizard oz
24. sa sa samoa ~ korallreven with julianna barwick
25. nature is a song ~ sister irene o'connor
26. guaglione ~ marino marini

otro año más, happy birthday maicropóns!

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jennifer castle

jennifer castle ~ castlemusic (flemish eye 2011)

"...Jennifer Castle and her new record, Castlemusic, is like a moving picture, set firmly in the present, living, breathing, and taking shape as you’re listening to it. It’s an animate, evolving record offers a new experience each time you listen to it.

...on “Way of the Crow” her voice soars above the clouds, using her upper register to take the listener airborn, presumably on the calmer currents of air above the storm hinted at in “Powers”. Then once you get to “Poor as Him”, Jennifer sets you down on a hot and humid beach to shake and shimmy along with the ghosts of kids in polka dot bikinis and surf shorts. It’s heady, sometimes trippy listening.

And so it goes through this record. It was recorded so that the natural reverb and sonic textures of the room were preserved, and throughout Castlemusic, you get the impression that much of what you hear happened exactly as it was recorded..." quick before it melts

bienvenida de nuevo señorita castle, y gracias por ragalarnos el disco más literalmente bonito del año

definitivamente, elegance is her way

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castlemusic

castlemusic - you can't take anyone (blue fog 2008)

"...recorded in the spring and fall seasons of 2007 with Jeff McMurrich in Toronto, with the intention to make a record with attention to performance rather than perfection, You can't take anyone allows the graceful tangles of Castlemusic's songs to radiate without pretense. Here Jennifer Castle's meandering, beautifully misshapen guitar lines meet with her thorny/poignant, womanly lyrics and utterly disarming voice. With a desire to write music that, "lets me really play the guitar with no preciousness to structure and timing so I can really enjoy singing…the song becomes the bridge for both interests", Castle's addictive songs echo homespun greats like Johnny Cash and Elizabeth Cotton.

Of her song writing intentions and heartbreaking delivery, Jennifer says, "I wish to write with a dedication to imagination, poetry, meaninglessness, impossibility and honesty. Bad grammar and sloppy chord changes…to lyrically write in the often sad voice of a person who feels alone, while playing and singing like a person who reaps the uninhibited and beautiful benefits of this state...". blue fog

después de un disco tan especial y bonito como 'Live at Music Gallery' necesitábamos más y hemos recibido mucho más...folk y soul y country, coros preciosos, una voz que da ganas de llorar, elegancia en cada arreglo, en cada melodía. te hace perder la noción del tiempo y se puede escuchar diez veces seguidas...y seguir enganchada. empieza perezoso, como si acabara de despertar, pero de repente algo mágico sucede: your hand is a wing, y todo tiene sentido. !!

foto: maya bird

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castlemusic

castlemusic - live at the music gallery (cd-r, 2006)

llueve + día gris = save me jennifer

snow

heaven