Browse by Artist: BLITHE SONS, THE

Artist:	BLITHE SONS, THE
Title:	We Walk The Young Earth
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 021CD

"We Walk the Young Earth is the third full-length release from The Blithe Sons, the duo of Loren Chasse (id Battery, Thuja) and Glenn Donaldson (the Birdtree, Thuja, Mirza). Acoustic and battery-powered instruments were recorded via field-mic in a grassy meadow bristling with insects, birds and wind. We Walk the Young Earth continues this outdoor-recording practice and was edited from performances that took place under a creek bridge in San Gregorio and inside WWII-era bunkers on sea cliffs in the Marin Headlands, California. With acoustic guitar, harps, bells, harmonium, toy-amplifiers, gongs submerged in a creek, cymbals, battery-powered keyboards, vocals, banjo, birds, pipes, bell-blocks, drums, branches and the location itself as an instrument, We Walk the Young Earth weaves minimalist hymns with stark drones."

Artist:	BLITHE SONS, THE
Title:	Arm of the Starfish
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 029CD

"Arm of the Starfish is the fifth full-length release from the outdoor wandering The Blithe Sons, the Jewelled Antler-related duo of Loren Chasse (id Battery, Thuja) and Glenn Donaldson (the Birdtree, Thuja, Mirza), and their second CD for Family Vineyard. Performed mostly in coastal environs on acoustic and battery-powered instruments, the sound of waves, wind, tide pools, seabirds and shifting sand plays an active role in these minimalist folk atmospheres. Incorporating 12-string cuatro, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, banjo, harmonium, percussion, toy amplifiers, wood flutes, Thai mouthorgan, violin-uke, Casio and Donaldson's mysterious vocal utterances, Arm of the Starfish evokes haunted shorelines, windswept cliffs and vast undersea caverns."

Artist:	BLITHE SONS, THE
Title:	The Great Orthochromatic Wheel
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FV 062LP

"The Great Orthochromatic Wheel is The Blithe Sons' first full-length release since 2004. In the years since the California duo of Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson may have traversed poppy fields and swam to aqua cities though mostly they've remained active with their Jewelled Antler offshoots: Ov, Of, and Child Readers (Chasse) or Skygreen Leopards and Flying Canon (Donaldson) and both in Thuja. These five songs combine nature's melodic pull and minimalist song forms summoned by a miniature backyard orchestra of acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonium, drums, and a whispering sea breeze. Each LP side flaunts a different depth of the Sons, one recorded outdoors and the other inside; one organic slow-motion folk and the other a thick honeycomb drone. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album."

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