- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Orenda Fink
Album: Ask The Night
Label: Saddle Creek
Playtime: 28:07 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/orendafink
Rip date: 2009-09-19
Street date: 2009-10-06
Size: 34.36 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 162 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
Upon finishing the O+S album, Orenda was ready to venture out again under her
own name and craved an altogether different kind of project. She sought to
create something very personal, simpler in style but no less intricate in
craft, and something that required no computers or electronics of any kind.
ItÆs fitting, then, that Ask The Night was primarily recorded live to 8-track
by Stephen Bartolomei (Mal Madrigal) in OrendaÆs former Omaha basement as
well as by Andy LeMaster (Now ItÆs Overhead; production on Bright Eyes, Conor
Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Azure Ray) in his Athens, GA living room.
The songs on Ask The Night vary in tone and style, often defying simple
categorization. Subtle genre hints emerge such as old-time waltz (ôSisterö),
country (ôAlabamaö), folk (ôThe Gardenö) and haunting bluegrass (ôHigh
Groundö), while the instrumentation includes acoustic and slide guitar,
mandolin, banjo, accordion, violin, upright bass, pump organàeven saw. From
the plaintive, melancholy opener ôWhy Is The Night Sadö to the evocative
ôThat Certain-Something Springö to the sweetly doleful closer ôThe Moon
Knowsö, Ask The Night is a true col- lection of folk music, translated
through OrendaÆs unique perspective, woven and intertwined by her
distinctive, heart-rending vocals.
The album features a wide variety of players and singers, including producers
Stephen Bartolomei and Andy LeMaster, Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Dan
McCarthy (McCarthy Trenching), and Adrianne Verhoeven (Dri, The Anniversary,
Art In Manila), among others.
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01. Why Is the Night Sad ( 2:47)
02. High Ground ( 3:16)
03. Sister ( 2:31)
04. That Certain-Something Spring ( 3:11)
05. The Garden ( 3:18)
06. Wind ( 3:03)
07. Alabama ( 2:26)
08. The Mural ( 2:58)
09. Half-Light ( 3:21)
10. The Moon Knows ( 1:16)
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