Castanets And Jana Hunter
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Mon 30 January 2006 // 20:00
(Mon 30th / 8pm / £5)
Two feverish and honeyed musical singers supported by a melodic backwoods instrumentation and style. They come all the way from the USA with great endorsements. Out-there and welcoming, country and urban, spiritual but with one eye winking. Voices to behold.
Now released on Sufjan Stevens’ label Asthmatic Kitty, Castanet’s country-folk songs ride high on acoustic and slide guitar with a chuggin’ percussion steady underneath. The plaintive desert voice of the delightfully named Raymond Raposa soars, his sound and song similar to Herman Dune, Black Heart Procession and the shifty Wooden Wand collective in their old-time timbre. A beautiful mix of somber reflection, destination-unknown travelogue, and subversive anti-war boogie. Castanets' unrelenting creative pioneering always delightfully warms the attentive listener.
Jana Hunter – oh the joy of her sweet voice, guitar and fiddle. Magnetic screwy pop, lullabies and confessional lyrics sit snug next to indie AM country songs with big hearted dusty lo-fi tracks, she ain’t no old timer. Jana came from Texas, via New York to be the first signee to Devendra Banhart’s and Andy ‘Vetiver’ Cabic’s new label Gnomonsong. A touch of Edith Frost, Gillan Welch can be heard but she has a distinctly homegrown style, her album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom is filled with overdubbed vocals, guitar and handclaps that gives her songs a deceptively rich depth of field. Get into the fields too.
http://www.qujunktions.com
Two feverish and honeyed musical singers supported by a melodic backwoods instrumentation and style. They come all the way from the USA with great endorsements. Out-there and welcoming, country and urban, spiritual but with one eye winking. Voices to behold.
Now released on Sufjan Stevens’ label Asthmatic Kitty, Castanet’s country-folk songs ride high on acoustic and slide guitar with a chuggin’ percussion steady underneath. The plaintive desert voice of the delightfully named Raymond Raposa soars, his sound and song similar to Herman Dune, Black Heart Procession and the shifty Wooden Wand collective in their old-time timbre. A beautiful mix of somber reflection, destination-unknown travelogue, and subversive anti-war boogie. Castanets' unrelenting creative pioneering always delightfully warms the attentive listener.
Jana Hunter – oh the joy of her sweet voice, guitar and fiddle. Magnetic screwy pop, lullabies and confessional lyrics sit snug next to indie AM country songs with big hearted dusty lo-fi tracks, she ain’t no old timer. Jana came from Texas, via New York to be the first signee to Devendra Banhart’s and Andy ‘Vetiver’ Cabic’s new label Gnomonsong. A touch of Edith Frost, Gillan Welch can be heard but she has a distinctly homegrown style, her album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom is filled with overdubbed vocals, guitar and handclaps that gives her songs a deceptively rich depth of field. Get into the fields too.
http://www.qujunktions.com