BOATMEN WAITING ON THE WIND
This album could be the songs that boatmen hum to themselves while waiting for the wind to pick up. Or it could be the daydreams fishwives have while listening for the end of summer. Along with a distinguished array o [+]BOATMEN WAITING ON THE WIND
This album could be the songs that boatmen hum to themselves while waiting for the wind to pick up. Or it could be the daydreams fishwives have while listening for the end of summer. Along with a distinguished array of guest stars, it seems to be populated with an intriguing cast of characters some of whom you may feel like you've met before in the Greyhound station across the street from the mental health unit; a barbarian named Floyd whose repressive doctrines seem to draw out more than they repress, an ancient ghost, a depressed musician, an acordion playing marionette, one guy who believes that if the music stops the angels will die. Some are borrowed from older literature or religions. Quasimodo makes a cameo in the tune "Sarah de la Mer". Don't look for Sarah in the Catholic book of saints. She belongs to the Gipsies. "Your Cruelest Blow" is an ironic lament that references a couple of Coleridge's most famous poems and features the majestic string ensemble work of Jim Singleton and Nancy Buchan. It's a very long album and it's worth making it to the end if only to hear Buchan's soulful fiddle marching off into the distance on the enigmatic Dylan Thomas influenced piece, "The Gilt of the Christmas Lilly" but there are many fascinating stops along the way including forays into exotic jazz styles, salsa, reggae and psychedelic zydeco. From the seascapes in the opening number to the glass world of "The Gilt" you'll feel like you've been on a strange, beautiful journey.
- Frances Tabor
HEARTIFACTS
OFFBEAT MAGAZINE: "...one of the freshest and most essential voices in instrumental music today. - Michael Dominici
BEATLICKS (Memphis): "The lyric of 'Honeysuckle' sounds like it was written over a long weekend by Paul Simon and Bob Dylan. The verses have that driving polysyllabic roll of Dylan's Subterranean Homesick period but with Simon's gentler delivery."
- Dennis Formento
RELIX MAGAZINE: "one of the best, and most refreshing 'unknown' bands I've heard in a long, long time."
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