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a r t i s t : Fursaxa
t i t l e : Amulet
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Last Visible Dog [LVD-0101]
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Jan/2006
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 96.8 MB
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Fursaxa has never quite turned out a studio album that reflected the
power and awe of her live shows.╩ Instead, fans have had only a series
of tour cd-rs as compensation for this deficiency in her output.╩
Rectifying this problem (at least in part), comes the CD reissue of
Amulet along with half of her previous tour cd-r, 'From the Cult of Moon
Mountain'.╩ This hour plus selection of live material captures Fursaxa
at her very best, and will hopefully make believers of those who haven't
yet had a chance to catch her during her tours.╩ Two of the tracks
feature extra fuzz and wah from Bardo Pond's Michael and John Gibbons!
This is the Fursaxa that people need to hear, raw and intoxicating;
beautiful and perhaps still a little bit dangerous.
"Over the past couple of years, Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) has entrenched
herself as a mystical queen for the free-folk crowd, channelling the
disaffected sorrow of Nico as well as the transcendent visions of 12th
Century abbess Hildegard von Bingen. On her previous recordings, Burke
sewed together her albums from short vignettes of narcoleptic folk
songs, typically in the form of monotone lullabies in which her resonant
voice radiated through stoned-and-droned acoustic guitar strum and / or
farfisa arrangements. So it's very rare to finds a Fursaxa song that
clocks in at anything longer than 3 minutes, which curiously is ample
time for her to hypnotise her audience with her utterly compelling
songs. Amulet, thus, is a bit of a detour from the collections of
shortened songs as she offers four extended pieces of sprawling drones
built out of delay-pedal loops. On the first couple of tracks, it's
Burke's voice that takes center stage, spiralling into a hypnotic set of
oscillating patterns, mossy psychedelic chants harkening back to the
dark ages. She accentuates these tracks with occasional interludes for
flutes and hand bells. On one of the final tracks on Amulet, Burke sets
forth on a slow-motion acoustic guitar renditition of a Glenn Branca
symphony, aiming for nothing more than transcendent hypnotic monotone.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!"
--Aquarius Records
"Everyone thinking of buying a Fursaxa album should be aware that Tara
Burke has the ability to put listeners into a trance-like state. Her
voice is somewhere between a tenor and an alto, and when she ventures in
the lower ranges, she might as well be a hypnotist. Burke got my
attention years ago because there weren't many women making weird,
experimental, psychedelic music. There still aren't many, but Burke
continues to put out excellent album after excellent album.
...After one listen, I'm even more convinced that Tara Burke is a
mystic."
--Brad Rose (Foxy digitalis)
"A previous member of the band UN, Burke is now one of the epicentres
and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along
with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the
Jewelled Antler Collective. With her hypnotic, echo-y churchbell
chanting, Burke possesses a power-filled vocal sound that harkens back
not only to those other polar queens of disaffected freakout psychedelia
Nico and Barbara Manning, but she is also akin to and inspired by
Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine mystical abbess. With
the low drone of chord organ and farfisa, detuned ringing guitar, and
endlessly looped, multiply-tracked vocals applied with heaps of delay,
Fursaxa sounds like a tripped-out medievalist perched upon a poppy
petal. Burke has an alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, and
then into sheer psych and back again, but more importantly, her music is
pure humming narcosis"
--fusetron
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01-Rheine [09:41]
02-Rodeo In The Sky [03:57]
03-Crimson [13:42]
04-Song To The Cicada [13:06]
05-Tyranny [07:29]
06-Trobairity [08:11]
07-Renouny [11:42]
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67:48 min