Nina Walsh and Franck Alba's Fireflies have a new song out, a squally, banjo driven stomp riding on a huge bass part, and Nina in imperious voice. It sounds like something bad has gone down, a ritual gone wrong, a friend abandoned in the woods, 'that morning/ when skies were grey/ I left you lying and slipped away'. The video starts with a minute and a half of quiet sounds, whistles and a drone, the sound of the woods, leaves crunching and the stream bubbling and the ever present menace of the British countryside in the winter, before it all kicks off at one forty- one. Buy it at Bandcamp
Really enjoyed that, the sound yes, but more the concept made me think of the William Adamson (Rob Gallagher from Galliano) album from a few years ago, "Under an East Coast Moon" on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label, which had a similar but probably even more pronounced sense of rural topographical creepiness.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of something Bob 'Derwood' Andrews put out a few years ago under the Moondogg moniker.
ReplyDeleteA quick look on Youtube yielded this.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely cut from similar cloth John. I like that, thanks for pointing me towards it
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