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Artist:
FAUN FABLES
Title:
Family Album
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 262CD
"This is the third recording of Faun Fables, the experimental balladry shaped by Oakland-based artist Dawn McCarthy. Her work unfolds in a visceral combination of music and theatricality she calls songtelling. The main instrument is her cathartic voice, framed by harmonically adventurous guitar. On this album, she is joined by Nils Frykdahl of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, adding a bestiary of vocals, instrumentation and song collaboration.
Family Album
is another prize for fans of traditional folk music, the occult, cabaret, art rock, medieval prose and all the wonders of the world."
Artist:
FAUN FABLES
Title:
Early Song
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 273CD
"
Early Song
is the first chapter of Faun Fables. A songbook documenting the material Dawn McCarthy performed and travelled with as a soloist, leaving her work with bands and cabarets of NYC in 1997. It is a testament to the kind of spaciousness and focus McCarthy was seeking back then, amidst the whirlwind and stimuli of big city life. It marks the beginning of her work with stark compositions that give the vocals full sway.
Early Song's
originals were written from 1994 -1998, and the five traditionals included attest to McCarthy's love of folk tunes as vehicles for striking vocal narrative."
Artist:
FAUN FABLES
Title:
Mother Twilight
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 274CD
"Dawn and Nils made a hand-assembled, first pressing of
Mother Twilight
(self released 2001) that's mostly been available at Faun Fables live shows. They peddled it to nearly every bar and rural hall across North America from 2001- 2003, in the course of five national tours and one European trip. This re-issue of
Mother Twilight
is in a revised packaging design, making it available and distributed to the wider world."
Artist:
FAUN FABLES
Title:
The Transit Rider
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 314CD
"This selection of songs draws from a theme that began in 1994 -- when Dawn McCarthy (aka Faun Fables) was introduced to the complete world of the NYC subway in all its repetitious and transient glory and began writing about it. It was made into a full length theater show in 2002 in San Francisco, aided by the inspiration & work of director Allen Willner and a cast of thirteen. Fourth album from Faun Fables."
Artist:
FAUN FABLES
Title:
A Table Forgotten
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
DC 370CD
"
A Table Forgotten
is the first taste in an ongoing series of projects by Dawn McCarthy on a theme that's been largely unexplored in recent times: the age-old practices of tending a home and its immediate impact upon our day-to-day lives. It is an invitation to return to our kitchens and homes with reverence, to enjoy a largely overlooked sanctuary in the modern age. After the Faun Fables record release of
The Transit Rider
in 2006, Dawn was invited to be Artist-In-Residence with Idyllwild Art Academy's Interdisciplinary students in the San Jaciento Mountains of southern California, where she began delving into this longstanding theme of interest. Drawing from her own personal experience and research into historical patterns, plus the students' concerns about family and home, a musical theater performance debuted on the Idyllwild Arts campus in May 2007. Since that production, she has continued developing and performing this material plus other new songs with the Faun Fables band. Within this theme, the music is largely shaped by the spirit, tools and movement of physical kitchen work- and by dimensions of housekeeping that are positive, pivotal, even revolutionary. The tools of basic chores become instrumentation and choreography: the opening track 'With Words and Cake' takes place at a table with bells to ring, kettles to whistle and dishes and utensils to hit. But along with McCarthy & long-time collaborator Nils Frykdahl's guitars, percussion and wind instruments, the recording features the talents of new members, violinist Meredith Yayanos, and multi-instrumentalist Kirana Peyton on harmonium, vocals, and the Irish
bodhran
drum. This new release is also imbibed with the additional delightful sounds and manipulations of Matt Waldron (Irr.App.(ext), Nurse With Wound) who co-produced the EP with McCarthy and Frykdahl."
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