Sally Anne Morgan - Carrying - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sally Anne Morgan is an artist and multi-instrumentalist whose mastery of traditional folk forms is matched only by her ability to push the bounds of those forms into fresh, imaginative pastures. Known for her fiddle playing with the traditional Black Twig Pickers and the duo House and Land, Sally Anne's debut solo album Thread establishes her as an unparalleled voice in contemporary folk. With a penchant for tuneful melodies, combined with hypnotic rhythms, the result verges on pop. The candor and austerity of Appalachian music serve as the warp to Morgan's musical tapestries, where strands of psychedelia, rock, and experimentalism are the weft, deftly woven in intricate and beguiling patterns. Centered on interconnectivity and exploration, Thread strings together practices both ancient and modern, and brimming with simple beauties.1. Polly on the Shore2. Garden Song3. Sheep Shaped4. Wintersong5. Ellemwood Meditation6. Thread Song7. Sugar in the Gourd8. Wagoner's Lad9. Annachie Gordon

Multi-instrumentalist Sally Anne Morgan tills the soil of old timey music, folk practices old and new, and psychedelia to sow music that reaches out beyond it's roots. Cups dives headfirst into the waters of the Morgan's unconscious mind and plumbs those depths for swells of fertile brilliance and awe. In stark contrast to the traditional and pop-informed structures of her previous album Thread, Cups adopts a free-flowing approach intuitive and receptive, brimming and shifting and changing across a fragile equilibrium of pieces both improvised and composed. The fluid pieces twirl from pensive, looped fiddle to tiptoed banjo to patient, sunny parlor guitar arpeggios to droning dulcimer and a litany of percussive ripples with gentle ease. By distilling her most immediate inspirations into layers of sparkling timbre and buoyant rambles, Sally Anne Morgan's Cups builds a sense of community from within, like a back porch jam with her own subconscious.1. Night Window2. Prune3. Hori Hori4. Pythagoras5. Sandbox6. Through the Threshold7. Home Soup8. Angeline9. In Come a Bee10. Word for World

Sally Rogers - Generations [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/29/1992