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Josephine Foster bravely travelled to Nashville to seek out the legendary southern folk song and cosmic kazoo medicine show known as the Cherry Blossoms. Eventually Josephine did track them down and soon (as one could only dream of...) the sprawling jams did spin and the heartfelt social songs did ring. Josephine stayed on for a nice long spell recording and living among the Cherry Blossoms for a couple weeks. Many months later, I came through Nashville on my annual pilgrimage, and when John Allingham and Peggy Snow (voices and authors of most Cherry Blossoms songs) gave me a cdr documenting their favorite audio snapshots of Josephine's visit, I was thrilled to hear how organically Peggy and John's songs mix with Josephine's songs and weave in between and throughout the sprawling backporch Cherry Blossom jams. As usual, the Cherry Blossom's ramshakle eight piece band wheezes and whirs through the skeletons of their compositions, bending time and tone until complete chaos is just around the corner. Then typically, the stoned percussion wizard or the holwing antics of Peggy Snow will eventually shuffle everyone back into place as they begin to charge forward into some frenzy that only Hasil Adkins or Henry Flynt could have dreamt of. This dynamic album manages to cover many of the moods of this complex musical organism. From blue mountain meditations, hard cider country swing, still southern nights with all the windows open, backporch hillbilly hysterics wrap around campfire prayers... you may never get another chance to hear Americana quite like this again.
After 13 years in Sagittarius, the dark planet Pluto has finally begun his phase through the potent house of Capricorn. This journey will take 15 long and volatile years to complete. As a tribute to the beginning of what will no doubt be an epic period of destruction and deconstruction hopefully followed by intensive reevaluation and renewal, this album takes the listener through a similarly dynamic journey of celestial electronic meditations. Two months of depression medicated by serious drug and keyboard abuse yielded over 8 hours of introspective new age star symphonies, reaching through the darkness, towards some idea of future lightness. These recordings were then sifted through using modern astrological technologies to select the most thematically appropriate material for this song cycle. All atmospheres are thoroughly mutated through the chronic sicknesses of crude analog processing, only glimpses of the intended therapeutic cherubs make themselves known to the listener. Vast future darkness haunts the proceedings as scales climb to sublime pitches only to be shifted back into the murk of spiritual death and the first flickers of rebirth. Analog mirror music, mandatory long distance mental travel is woven into either alternative.
The newest artifact from the dynamic duo of audio decay. Craig treated us to this bit while opening for Wolf Eyes a couple years back. Maybe that's the reason for the random blasts of feedback on this one... Anyway, if you've heard this pair do their thing, then you probably were hoping for more and here it is. Davenport Family's own Endless and Deathfield bring us the frantic sounds of this world filtered through a half dozen microcassette recorders and presented to you live and in the raw.
The second offering from local no fi heroes Craig Microcassette System, #6 is another long improvised piece of layered tape hiss and crumble with found and/or stolen sounds, distorted field recordings, fragmented memories, broken toys, and chance garbage harmony.
