Artist: Georgia's Horse
Title: The Mammoth Sessions
Label: Fire
Genre: Folk
Bitrate: 132kbit av.
Time: 00:53:45
Size: 53.63 mb
Rip Date: 2009-04-24
Str Date: 2009-06-01
01. Shepherd 4:02
02. Bloom 2:55
03. As It Stops Raining 3:14
04. Summer's Ending Evenings 3:02
05. Snake & Sparrow 5:22
06. Mammoth 4:58
07. Alakazam 3:02
08. Erzulie Dantor 2:15
09. Exit Earth 4:15
10. Baron Samedi 3:24
11. The Man 2:42
12. TZSOTVOFASB 3:35
13. Bugg Super Love Song 10:59
Release Notes:
Texas is a graveyard and The Lone Star State is full of ghosts. Out on
the road to Old El Paso lies the Rattlesnake Bomber Base near a town
called Peyote. Once the home of fleets of B29 bombers and the plane
called Enola Gay as well as many thousands of military personnel, it
now stands empty. The only tenants are lizards and snakes. Even the
rusted and rotted hulks of planes have been carted off by junk men and
souvenir hunters. The roar of the war effort has been replaced by the
whisper of the wind. A gentle absence of action. This is just one of
several thousand abandoned settlements or ghost towns in the West Texan
desert but the haunted Americana of georgia's Horse sounds like it
could have come from any of them.
Their debut album 'The Mammoth Sessions' is redolent of sun-baked
vacant lots, cracked runways, drifting tumble weed and dull orange
rust. This collection of songs all sound like the aftermath of some
emotionally violent event that has just left stillness and melancholia
in its place. There are echoes of the (ex pat) Americana of The New
Pornographers, a light dusting of the folk psychedelia of Smog and the
torrid and threatening country death songs of PJ Harvey's µTo Bring You
My Love'.
These 13 songs are anchored round the skewed and magnetic vision of
singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado and their brittle and skeletal songs
are fleshed out by multi-instrumentalist Tiziano Hernandez
(bass/guitars), Brad Thomason (drums) and Melly Rose (cello). But
that's not to say that this recording sounds like it was handled by
some kind of your mother's your brother, lives in a barn hillman. One
of many stand out tracks, 'Snake & Sparrow', creaks and echoes as if
recorded in a haunted house, on haunted equipment. And the title track
briefly effloresces violently as if the ghost of the Enola Gay were
bringing its terrible cargo home, before returning to gentleness once
more. From the most basic of set ups, a deeply affecting and subtle
beauty is achieved.