Magic Tuber Stringband - Heavy Water CD
SKU
39-CD-THRILL-657
Courtney Werner - fiddle, field recordings
Evan Morgan - guitars, banjo, pump organ
Michael DeVito - bass, banjo, fiddle
Oliver Child-Lanning - tape loops
Jasper Lee - field recordings
The Magic Tuber Stringband have been around for a while and this is their ninth album. I’m told that they started as a relatively straight-forward string band, but at this point, with two members on this album contributing sound and processing and with their heavy use of drones and more, they are firmly way beyond being ‘old timey’ in any way. I saw them recently and they knocked me out and this is an excellent & unique album.
“Magic Tuber Stringband probes the undercurrents of the landscapes around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning avant composition world utilizing folk instrumentation. Their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of their surroundings, reflecting their time spent living across the Southeast and studying its regional folk traditions and natural histories. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation. Heavy Water addresses the toll of a nuclear arms plant on the local landscape and the communities that once lived there. It is a musical evocation of destruction and resilience–an embrace of dissonance and tension with moments of transcendence.”
- LabelThrill Jockey
- UPC790377065725