in case gav village desert or whoever doesn't get a chance to post this, this year's monsters of folk festival hits cork this friday ...
Friday October 6th
Larkin Grimm, Rising Appalachia, United Bible Studies
9pm
The LV, Cork
€8
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Larkin Grimm
"Larkin Grimm (now based in Providence, RI) was born in a Memphis, TN commune and grew up in Dahlonega, Georgia in the foothills of the Appalachians with a family of singers and fiddlers. Harpoon, her debut CD, reflects these rustic influences through a modern, psychedelic filter. Larkin's intense, ecstatic voice with swirling multi-tracked patterns recalls the richness of Illuminations-period Buffy Sainte-Marie and the sparkle of Linda Perhacs. Her instrumentation includes duclimer, pennywhistle, bells, drums and guitar. Larkin was previously a member of the Dirty Projectors (Western Vinyl) where she astounded audiences with her mesmerizing voice. This year Larkin has mesmerized audiences across Europe with a snowballing troupe of fans following her from town to town and at the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence where she has been noted as a festival highlight by almost blogging 'Scopehead on the planet. Larkin has shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Mi and L’au and Brightblack Morning Light."
- Secret Eye
www.larkingrimm.com
www.myspace.com/larkingrimm
MP3's:
Pigeon Food
The Last Tree
Little Weeper
Entrance
Future Friend
Harpoon Baptism
... I've also thrown her set from this year's terrastock festival here for anyone interested
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Rising Appalachia
Leah and Chloe grew up in the bosom of the Southern Appalachian music renaissance. Born to a fiddlin' mother and a folk-sculptor father, they were raised with old-time melodies and contra dances as their lullabies long before mention of the sound tracks of Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Cold Mountain. With influences in everything from urban jazz and hip hop, to roots music from around the world, they have created a style that is truly their own. Now, as young women, they have coddled that same Appalachian tradition, and continued to shape it and help it grow through music and song. Their simple eerie banjo and fiddle tunes and effortless sister harmonies are compared to that of Hazel Dickens, Rosetta Tharpe and Gillian Welch. The story further unfolds as the girls met the dynamic percussionist Mr. Forrest Kelly in one of their many trips to the magical hills of Asheville, North Carolina. Forrest's unique drumming style and subtle rhythms overlay a driving and hypnotic groove that is unstopable. With an occasional jaw harp, trumpet, djembe,or spoons they offer a fresh,raw approach to a beautiful old tradition. Collectively they have traveled and lived in Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Holland, Spain, Alaska, Hawaii, Vancover, and from East to West across the United States using their rich Appalachian tradition as a way to connect cultures.
www.risingappalachia.com
www.myspace.com/risingappalachia
There's mp3s on their myspace above. There's also some samples from each of the album tracks at www.risingappalachia.com/music.htm
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United Bible Studies
Originally formed as a duo with an unhealthy desire to emulate the incredible string band, UBS quickly evolved into a collective and laid the groundwork for the Deserted Village label and events. Since their formation in winter 2001 they have played and recorded sporadically-never settling on one recording method, never settling on one line-up. The new album "The Shore that Fears the Sea"(truenote007) shows a love of the unadorned beauty of Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Vashti Bunyan, Current 93, Coil and Sol Invictus, as well as the work of poets Edwin Morgan and WS Graham. Sparse folk sidles up to a more melodic take on improvisation and tales of loss and pagan longing abound. If they could exist anywhere, they would be playing in the Green Man when Sergeant Howie arrives.
Since their Sun worship ritual at The Mór Festival in 2003, the students have increased their activities. The set, which included radical re-workings of some of their quiet new folk songs has been edging towards a more Pharoah Sanders/ Emperor/ Can hybrid thanks to the new drums and horns helping them to blaze brighter in the northern skye. Live shows throughout Ireland and Britain including the Leechrum Festival have seen them wildly improvise with up to twelve members or play straight trad as a trio. Standard rock instrumentation is bolstered with theremins, fretless banjos, accordions, bugles... whatever comes to hand... Their philosophy is that all paths are equal, all approaches relevant. Members have sometimes met on stage for the first time.
Though inspired by Irish Folk music, United Bible Studies have always seen themselves in a global context. They've had a slew of releases on microlabels across the planet and have invited many like-minded artists to tour Ireland with them including Avarus, Fursaxa, Corsano/Flaherty, Black Forest/Black Sea, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Pinkie and John, ZU, Daniel Padden and Pumice. UBS played as Damo Suzuki's backing band twice: First at the demented beer garden after-party of the Mór Festival 2004 which saw people dancing in tongues and using every solid object as a drum and a sold-out two-hour set in Galway in March 2005.
www.desertedvillage.com
www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies
MP3's:
http://www.rustedrail.com/UBS%20-%20Spoon%20of%20Haar.mp3
http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Evillagewasteland/Glitter%20on%20Ice.mp3
http://64.119.183.4/%7Ecosmicto/mp3s/united_bible_studies_Styx%20edit.mp3
http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/MP3s/ReviewGallery11/UBSAirsofSunandStone.mp3
Friday October 6th
Larkin Grimm, Rising Appalachia, United Bible Studies
9pm
The LV, Cork
€8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larkin Grimm
"Larkin Grimm (now based in Providence, RI) was born in a Memphis, TN commune and grew up in Dahlonega, Georgia in the foothills of the Appalachians with a family of singers and fiddlers. Harpoon, her debut CD, reflects these rustic influences through a modern, psychedelic filter. Larkin's intense, ecstatic voice with swirling multi-tracked patterns recalls the richness of Illuminations-period Buffy Sainte-Marie and the sparkle of Linda Perhacs. Her instrumentation includes duclimer, pennywhistle, bells, drums and guitar. Larkin was previously a member of the Dirty Projectors (Western Vinyl) where she astounded audiences with her mesmerizing voice. This year Larkin has mesmerized audiences across Europe with a snowballing troupe of fans following her from town to town and at the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence where she has been noted as a festival highlight by almost blogging 'Scopehead on the planet. Larkin has shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Mi and L’au and Brightblack Morning Light."
- Secret Eye
www.larkingrimm.com
www.myspace.com/larkingrimm
MP3's:
Pigeon Food
The Last Tree
Little Weeper
Entrance
Future Friend
Harpoon Baptism
... I've also thrown her set from this year's terrastock festival here for anyone interested
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rising Appalachia
Leah and Chloe grew up in the bosom of the Southern Appalachian music renaissance. Born to a fiddlin' mother and a folk-sculptor father, they were raised with old-time melodies and contra dances as their lullabies long before mention of the sound tracks of Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Cold Mountain. With influences in everything from urban jazz and hip hop, to roots music from around the world, they have created a style that is truly their own. Now, as young women, they have coddled that same Appalachian tradition, and continued to shape it and help it grow through music and song. Their simple eerie banjo and fiddle tunes and effortless sister harmonies are compared to that of Hazel Dickens, Rosetta Tharpe and Gillian Welch. The story further unfolds as the girls met the dynamic percussionist Mr. Forrest Kelly in one of their many trips to the magical hills of Asheville, North Carolina. Forrest's unique drumming style and subtle rhythms overlay a driving and hypnotic groove that is unstopable. With an occasional jaw harp, trumpet, djembe,or spoons they offer a fresh,raw approach to a beautiful old tradition. Collectively they have traveled and lived in Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Holland, Spain, Alaska, Hawaii, Vancover, and from East to West across the United States using their rich Appalachian tradition as a way to connect cultures.
www.risingappalachia.com
www.myspace.com/risingappalachia
There's mp3s on their myspace above. There's also some samples from each of the album tracks at www.risingappalachia.com/music.htm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
United Bible Studies
Originally formed as a duo with an unhealthy desire to emulate the incredible string band, UBS quickly evolved into a collective and laid the groundwork for the Deserted Village label and events. Since their formation in winter 2001 they have played and recorded sporadically-never settling on one recording method, never settling on one line-up. The new album "The Shore that Fears the Sea"(truenote007) shows a love of the unadorned beauty of Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Vashti Bunyan, Current 93, Coil and Sol Invictus, as well as the work of poets Edwin Morgan and WS Graham. Sparse folk sidles up to a more melodic take on improvisation and tales of loss and pagan longing abound. If they could exist anywhere, they would be playing in the Green Man when Sergeant Howie arrives.
Since their Sun worship ritual at The Mór Festival in 2003, the students have increased their activities. The set, which included radical re-workings of some of their quiet new folk songs has been edging towards a more Pharoah Sanders/ Emperor/ Can hybrid thanks to the new drums and horns helping them to blaze brighter in the northern skye. Live shows throughout Ireland and Britain including the Leechrum Festival have seen them wildly improvise with up to twelve members or play straight trad as a trio. Standard rock instrumentation is bolstered with theremins, fretless banjos, accordions, bugles... whatever comes to hand... Their philosophy is that all paths are equal, all approaches relevant. Members have sometimes met on stage for the first time.
Though inspired by Irish Folk music, United Bible Studies have always seen themselves in a global context. They've had a slew of releases on microlabels across the planet and have invited many like-minded artists to tour Ireland with them including Avarus, Fursaxa, Corsano/Flaherty, Black Forest/Black Sea, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Pinkie and John, ZU, Daniel Padden and Pumice. UBS played as Damo Suzuki's backing band twice: First at the demented beer garden after-party of the Mór Festival 2004 which saw people dancing in tongues and using every solid object as a drum and a sold-out two-hour set in Galway in March 2005.
www.desertedvillage.com
www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies
MP3's:
http://www.rustedrail.com/UBS%20-%20Spoon%20of%20Haar.mp3
http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Evillagewasteland/Glitter%20on%20Ice.mp3
http://64.119.183.4/%7Ecosmicto/mp3s/united_bible_studies_Styx%20edit.mp3
http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/MP3s/ReviewGallery11/UBSAirsofSunandStone.mp3
think they'll be buskin tomorrow on the streets so keep and eye and ear out...apparently they also breathe fire!
