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Well of Memory
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Track Listing
- Well of Memory, Pt. 1
- Come In/The Winter It Is Past
- Old Man on the Mountain
- Little Harp Tune
- Evening Comes
- Crooked Way
- Considering the Lateness of the Hour
- Three Stages of a Band
- Well of Memory, Pt. 2
- Weeping Willow
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #99783 in Music
- Released on: 2004-07-12
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Post-folk
An intelligent US West Coast outfit that has listened to Renbourn and Jansch but also appears to know Feldman and Cage and takes the music beyond Radio 2 folk pastiche. 6 Organs of Admittance are in a similar place but - apart from their drummer - lack the calibre of musicianship and song-writing here. The cod folk lyrics you could be charitable about and say were knowing. The wire-strung harps suggest Alain Stivell is an influence - but their weird treatments take them beyond Celtic cliche. It's like they have dredged up a wood-henge of folk from an estuary. Their most recent release is sadly not in the same spirit.
Definately worth it!
Another good artist that mystically appeared in my Amazon recommendations list!
This album is a great one for fans of lo-fi / freak-folk / psych-folk - it has it all!
The two 'Well of Memory’ tracks come across as being reminiscent of the times that Six Organs of Admittance descend into their Eastern influenced trance inducing tracks with their drones and improvised guitar strums and plucks, but these seem to have more of a sparkly attractiveness to them.
The second track, ‘Come in / The Winter is Past’, due to it’s banjo, sounds like it could belong to Sufjan Stevens.
Then the next track, ‘Old Man on the Mountain’, could easily fit somewhere in the late 60s folk movement.
‘A Little Harp Tune’ is self explanatory - one and a half minutes of attractive harp strumming, and we even get a little bit of electric acid-folk/blues in the shape of the track ‘Three Stages of a Band’.
Basically, imagine most avant-folk genres and P.G. Six has them included in this album!
The only gripe that I have is the closing track ‘The Weeping Willow’. Although it is a great song in itself, it doesn’t feel like an album closer - having mentioned his psych influences, I was expecting something more akin to an Espers, or a Six Organs album closer. But that doesn’t detract from the fact that each song is well worth a few spins!
