Michael Hurley - Ancestral Swamp - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A self-taught folk singer and guitarist, Michael Hurley plays music reflective of his upbringing in the rural backcountry of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Recorded when he was 22, First Songs was released in 1964 and is described by album producer and recording engineer Frederic Ramsey Jr.. as less frenetic, more in-looking, more expressive than his early rambling days on the road. Hurley's compositions from First Songs and other albums have been recorded by many contemporary artists including Espers, Vetiver, the Violent Femmes, and Cat Power. 12 tracks, 50 minutes, with liner notes which include Hurley's biography and song lyrics.

2024 . Recalibrating her singular journey in the British musical landscape with her most open-hearted, direct and intimate collection of material yet. Love In Constant Spectacle evokes spectacular imagery and distills the artists' vision in it's purest form, elevating her inimitable sound and poetic vision to new heights. Recapturing the melancholy of her early work whilst propelling it forward, she sketches scenes as we watch new colours, shapes and languages emerge and fill the frame. Love In Constant Spectacle sees her take measured steps towards a vivid, dreamlike record, that offers resolve in the face of life's inevitability. The foundations of Weaver's sound are still evident - rich motorik drums, pulsating bass, custom modded synths and exotic fuzz pedals - but the stream is awash with scrabble piece poetry and Letraset lullabies leading to rich escapism, the free abandon that you'd associate with free jazz and the avant-garde. But, as determined and visionary as Weaver might be, Love In Constant Spectacle wasn't executed without assistance. Here we find a long mooted unison with Jane's first ever producer, John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding), who has shared Weaver's process in the surrounds of Rockfield Studios and Geoff Barrow's Invada studio. Love In Constant Spectacle is otherworldly, it is both intimate yet distant, a surrealist interpretation of the foundations that make us human - the stories and landscapes it paints are habitats of their own. A voyage into undisclosed pastures, it's a heartfelt manifesto from an artist that continues to boundlessly evolve with each chapter in her career. InchAn artist at the top of her gameInch NPR.

Various Artists - Poetry Classics Great Voices [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/08/2011