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No Summer (Lp)

Cinder Well

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Format: CD

Cat No: DIRTCD0098

Format Details: Lp

Release Date:  24 July 2020

Label:  Free Dirt Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  877746009822

Genres:  Folk  Singer Songwriter  

Release Date:  24 July 2020

Label:  Free Dirt Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  877746009815

Genres:  Folk  Singer Songwriter  

  • Description

    Cinder Well is at the vanguard of a different kind of transatlantic folk revival, one forged amidst the uncertainty of a global pandemic. However, Irish-based songwriter Amelia Baker's music isn't nihilistic; instead, it strips traditional forms to their bones, creating a meditative, trance-like space for sonic healing. The sparse soundscapes and haunting stillness of her new album 'No Summer' are not meant to be paens to loneliness. Rather, Baker was inspired by the rich musical connectivity of the pub scene in Ireland, and her move from California to County Clare to study traditional music of the region. A member of anarchist folk project Blackbird Raum, Baker's time on the circuit with Irish trad-punk group Lankum eventually led her to a small settlement in County Clare, and to the rich dissonance of her music as Cinder Well, a dissonance caught between worlds and histories. Recorded by Nich Wilbur (Black Belt Eagle Scout, Angel Olsen), the original songs on 'No Summer' boldly rub shoulders with careful reworkings of traditional Appalachian sources. Baker's songs parse these transatlantic traditions, and throughout, her remarkable voice cuts to the bone like some ghostly ballad singer bound to sing these words from here to eternity. From the eerily prophetic title track - which presaged a season of canceled shows - to "Our Lady's"'s imagined stories of spectral abandoned asylum residents, 'No Summer' is as haunting as it is connected, as dark as it is sacred, a kind of ritual healing that's existed through the ages.

    Description

    Cinder Well is at the vanguard of a different kind of transatlantic folk revival, one forged amidst the uncertainty of a global pandemic. However, Irish-based songwriter Amelia Baker's music isn't nihilistic; instead, it strips traditional forms to their bones, creating a meditative, trance-like space for sonic healing. The sparse soundscapes and haunting stillness of her new album 'No Summer' are not meant to be paens to loneliness. Rather, Baker was inspired by the rich musical connectivity of the pub scene in Ireland, and her move from California to County Clare to study traditional music of the region. A member of anarchist folk project Blackbird Raum, Baker's time on the circuit with Irish trad-punk group Lankum eventually led her to a small settlement in County Clare, and to the rich dissonance of her music as Cinder Well, a dissonance caught between worlds and histories. Recorded by Nich Wilbur (Black Belt Eagle Scout, Angel Olsen), the original songs on 'No Summer' boldly rub shoulders with careful reworkings of traditional Appalachian sources. Baker's songs parse these transatlantic traditions, and throughout, her remarkable voice cuts to the bone like some ghostly ballad singer bound to sing these words from here to eternity. From the eerily prophetic title track - which presaged a season of canceled shows - to "Our Lady's"'s imagined stories of spectral abandoned asylum residents, 'No Summer' is as haunting as it is connected, as dark as it is sacred, a kind of ritual healing that's existed through the ages.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Wandering Boy
      • 2. No Summer
      • 3. Our Lady's
      • 4. Fallen
      • 5. The Cuckoo
      • 6. Old Enough
      • 7. Queen Of The Earth, Child Of The Skies
      • 8. The Doorway
      • 9. From Behind The Curtain

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Wandering Boy
      • 2. No Summer
      • 3. Our Lady's
      • 4. Fallen
      • 5. The Cuckoo
      • 6. Old Enough
      • 7. Queen Of The Earth, Child Of The Skies
      • 8. The Doorway
      • 9. From Behind The Curtain