a r t i s t : Caethua
t i t l e : Village Of The Damned
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Bluesanct
c a t : INRI083
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Avantgarde / Folk / Drone
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2008
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 41,4 MB
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If you like Grouper and Valet, you will like this.
Bluesanct label found in Caethua a likewise "poor soul"
underground folk & experimental music talent in Caethua, and
re-released her privately released project, to reach a bigger
audience, as a home printed booklet, with CDR, while the (real
cd?) pressings on her own label, Saxwand, will still remain
available.
I assume this is mostly a female led project of songs combined
with additional soundscapes, that unfolds like abstract
natural sounds, partly meditative with bowls and droning
keyboards.
On ôRetreatö this sounds like as if objects that stand in a
room with closed curtains so long so that they become so
familiar and it becomes so as if they begin to speak with
sounds, while Caethua sings in this environment, as the ghost,
guides over their familiar stagnant and safe patterns. On
ôPlaying deadö (I saw the title only after the previous
description) the voice is much more alive over the dead, more
playful, still behind curtains, while also guitars
arrangements are added. ôMeditationö uses Tibetan bells and
keyboards, and is indeed a meditative soundtrack, rich in
colours with sounds, an existence in a grey darkness and
nature, as a naturally evolving soundscape. Also ôthey walk at
nightö with voice, bells, guitar and so on, forms thoroughly
another kind of naturally pulsing soundtrack, sounding like
industrial insects, until thoroughly a keyboard drones take it
over, with slow waves and slightly buzzing sounds to it, like
a combination of radiowaves of longer and shorter wavelength
frequencies. After more musings with guitars and keyboards and
hand and finger percussive inspirations in a room, ôblack
waterö concludes with a "woohoo.." singing, like the dog in
the house who found as if through chanelling a human voice for
its expressionsà.
Caethua explained to me afterwards : "The CD is about the
village where I grew up called Dryden, where a long string of
murders (dating back to when the village was founded) cursed
the land." Caethea also just released another recording on LP.
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01-Village Of The Damned [03:08]
02-Retreat [02:31]
03-Playing Dead [02:29]
04-Meditation [03:22]
05-They Walk At Night [02:56]
06-Burning Yarrow [09:18]
07-Tragic [02:33]
08-Consecration [05:54]
09-Black Water [05:08]
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37:19 min