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█ ARTIST: Mariee Sioux █
█ TITLE: Gift for the End █
█ LABEL: Almost Musique █
█ GENRE: Folk █
█ BITRATE: 204kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 41min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-03-15 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Homeopathic 6:33 █
█ 02. Ghosts In My Heart 4:40 █
█ 03. Old Magic 5:10 █
█ 04. Icarus Eye 4:03 █
█ 05. Swimming Through Stone 4:14 █
█ 06. White Fanged Foreverness 6:23 █
█ 07. Twin Song 4:35 █
█ 08. Tule 6:19 █
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█ Gift for the End, Mariee SiouxÆs new album, draws its benevolent █
█ psychedelia on the native folk roots: a canyon crisscrossed by paths █
█ leading Joni MitchellÆs, Neil YoungÆs and Bonnie Prince BillyÆs souls █
█ into a deep world music, mystical and ancestral, either from America or █
█ from elsewhere. █
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█ Since the release of her debut album Faces in the Rocks, the young █
█ californian girl from Nevada City toured a lot û sometimes with her █
█ homie Alela Diane or Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) -, in the US and in █
█ Europe, she also participated in tribute albums to The Cure (Perfect as █
█ Cat, released on Manimal Vinyl Records) and to Graham Nash (Be Yourself █
█ on Grass Roots Records/Coop) and recorded several tracks in duo with █
█ Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) to be released this year. █
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█ Gift for the End was recorded between April 2010 and August 2011 in █
█ PlacervilleÆs Moonsoon Studios and in the Nevada CityÆs Sun Dial █
█ studios. Mariee Sioux added intricate melodies to her traditional guitar █
█ picking, combining the most classical and the less conventional █
█ instruments, allowing herself a wider personal and emotional █
█ exploration. As compared to Faces in the RocksÆs consistency and █
█ uniformity, Gift for the End offers a large variety of sounds, universes █
█ and themes, the one about native Americans, as symbolized by traditional █
█ flutes, being more discreet. █
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█ The guest musicians are familiar and necessary, Sean KaeÆs arrangements █
█ and production sometimes treat the traditional folk instruments in a █
█ hallucinogenic way: a subtle carpet of percussions, vocal harmonies, █
█ ghostly sounds features allowing to link the tracks together and to weld █
█ them into a single block of different crystals electric americana riffs █
█ (½ Tule ╗), delicate strokes of Wurlitzer (½ Icarus Eye ╗), classical █
█ piano tracks (½ Old Magic ╗), new age analogic landscapes (½ White █
█ Fanged Foreverness ╗), country western atmosphere (½ Twin Song ╗), or █
█ English psyche folk (½ Homeopathic ╗, ½ Ghost in my Heart ╗). █
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█ Gift for the End is a mineral album. It also brings to mind Enya, Linda █
█ Perhacs, Townes Van Zandt, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Neutral Milk Hotel, █
█ The Pentangle, Jackson Browneà █
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