ruth garbus

ruth garbus ~ rendezvous with rama (autumn, 2010)

"lovely set of guitar/voice studies from vermonter ruth garbus, reminding of kath bloom’s sides (both w/ & w/o loren connors) & linda perhacs’ effortlessly breathy “parallelograms”. but then again i imagine most will compare the omnipresent patina of tape-hiss & chiming guitar figures to liz “grouper” harris; fans of whom will most certainly want to investigate herein" mimaroglu

"ruth garbus used to be in a band called Feathers,  she still plays with kyle t. in a band called happy birthday, she lives with c. weisman in brattleboro & her sister is merrill Tune-yards.

is she a singer/songwriter? folk musician? chanteuse? torch singer? jazz vocalist? new age artist? tropicalia? early music?. im not sure what we should call it. maybe all of the above. well it doesn't really matter anyhow because we think you'll think ruth's new album is super good." autumn

foto: miroslav tichý

feathers, otro nombre con significado especial

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the salvador cresta´s magic package

"todos mis problemas se van,
todos mis problemas se van,
cuando miro en tus ojos,
y nos damos cuenta,
que en el fondo no importa nada de lo que pasa,
mis problemas son solo canciones,
mis problemas son solo canciones,
camino por las sierras,
el aire huele a menta,
el viento me despeina y se lleva cualquier preocupación,
vivo en una nube,
vivo en un espiral,
donde todo es ruidoso, alocado y confuso,
pero encontré una belleza que no puedo negar,
cuando miro en tus ojos"
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MUSIC:

caballos y entusiasmo • hidromiel [mariano mermaid, 2011]
the red hot liquid papers • hidrofobia EP [mariano mermaid, 2011]
salvador cresta • salvador cresta´s live from fabito´s house [mariano mermaid, 2011]

VIDEOS:

- Caballos y Entusiasmo: "PupaPupaPupa" del album hidropony
- the red hot liquid papers: "live perfomance", "making covers for our records" & "recording"
-the salvador cresta´s home videos vol. 5: old japanese ghosts inside my face
- salvador cresta: " i made this one on the fabito's wall"

REVISTA/ MAGAZINE:

- "señor del compra-venta"
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de cuando la palabra abracadabra se cubre de sorpresas y genialidad... la magia existe, aquí la prueba .
gracialas, salvador ^.^

fotola: arbore

kurt weisman

kurt weisman ~ orange (autumn 2010)

"Orange is kurt weisman's second album and it is a brilliantly chiseled gem. a beautiful garnet, or perhaps an orange chalcedony. there are traces of traditional norwegian melodies, atonal counterpoint, simple folk songs, new age blues, spacy doo wop, neo-classicism & love songs...kurt lives in a cabin in the woods near putney, vermont. it seems that the quiet, peaceful isolation permeated this music. these songs were ingrained and steeped deeply within kurt's soul (and fingers) over the course of a few years. now he is a mirror reflecting them back to us with love to the universe. Orange is mostly kurt singing and playing guitars but there are tasteful additions of clarinets from robert stillman (horses) and kinetic sparkling keyboards from eliot krimsky (glass ghost) & a touch of other instruments & sounds by kurt. included is a nice insert of a woodblock print of a horse by ben stamper who also helped produce the album." autumn

foto: toby price

puedo confirmar y confirmo que when i saw him with you es una de las canciones más bonitas de kurt weisman e incluso de feathers, y también blueberry song, que me recuerda a kath bloom y loren connors

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kurt weisman

kurt weisman - spiritual sci-fi (important 2008)

"While Spiritual Sci-Fi is a result of work that Kurt Weisman has been undertaking for the last 10 years it's certainly also worth noting that he's a multi-instrumentalist in the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers. Kurt's stunning musicallity and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. The dense & original arrangement makes recalls the majesty of Van Dyke Parks album Song Cycle.

Kurt Weisman is a New England composer in his late 20s around whom all the wheels of life seem distinctly sped up (he's known for his extreme falsetto as well as pitching up his voice beyond Beatle and into cartoon)..." Important

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Feathers

Feathers - Feathers (Gnomonsong, 2005)

La portada me recuerda a Cripple Crow de Devendra, o a The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter de The Incredible String Band. Psych folk delicado y tranquilo, (la fascinante Silverleaves in the starseedlings oooh la la la...ooh la la la..) y a veces festivo (old black hat with a dandelion flower)
Son muchos, no sé si todos los que salen en la portada, habitan en algún bosque perdido de Vermont y se hacen llamar muy acertadamente Plumas. Hay sítares, harpas, flautas, banjos, guitarras wah wah, percusiones, vocecillas silvestres, gnomos, cantos de pájaros, silbidos y un torrente de melodías.
aunque ya conocíamos el exultante y saltarín Gnomeozoic live EP, éste es su primer largo oficial. He de decir que curiosamente el sonido reluce y tiene más fuerza en su versión antigua: ese pletórico 'Old Black Hat With a Dandelion Flower'...

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