a r t i s t : Black Forest/Black Sea
t i t l e : st.
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Music Fellowship
c a t : MF28
s o u r c e : Vinyl
g e n r e : Psychedelic
r l s. d a t e : 2007-11-16
t r a c k s : 2
b i t r a t e : 204 kbps avg
s i z e : 61.16MB
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BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA is the Providence duo of Jeffrey Alexander (mostly
guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play free-form music that
draws from folk traditions. The have toured extensively in the US and
Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik and Portland to
Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS full-length, and the 2nd self-titled
album - recorded in Providence, RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest
performances by Italian sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds)
and Miriam's sister Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister -
Gillian Goldberg - provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate
voice, ur-pedal, casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord. **The pressing of the
BFBS LP is limited to 500 copies and are on 12x24 white stock. The covers
are hand-silkscreened with the same artwork as is represented on the CDs.
"...a gorgeous snapshot of the free psych underground, one of the purest
spaces of otherworldly terrain in the current musical landscape." -
Pitchfork
"Backwards backwoods playing, electronic effects, a shortwave radio and some
knob twiddling are all incorporated into their sound, which twists from
traditional folk Americana to beatbox Improv and back again. Nothing,
however, is quite what it seems, and this constant sound shifting gives
Alexander and Goldberg's musically metamorphic contribution to the New Weird
America cult an edge over the competition. For BF/BS are genuinely strange."
- The Wire
*nukers: This is the fourth BF/BS full-length, and the 2nd self-titled
album
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A1-Side A [19:37 ]
A2-Side B [20:10 ]
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39:47 min