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Artist:	HUNTER, JANA
Title:	Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom
Label:	GNOMONSONG
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	GONG 001CD

First release on this new Devenda Banhart run label. "Jana Hunter is from Texas, the fifth of nine children. She played classical music throughout her youth, but that doesn't really explain why she writes such haunting songs. Hunter is one of those rare artists whose craft does its work on listeners before they even notice. Deceptively simple, clear and concise, these songs surround and envelop, seeping into the skin until they are a part of you. Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom is a collection of songs written over the period of a decade. The album is a thirteen song 'best of,' recorded on four-tracks, two-tracks and computers, mostly in Texas and mostly alone."

Artist:	HUNTER, JANA
Title:	Carrion
Label:	WOODSIST
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.50
Catalog #:	WOODSIST 007EP

Early Woodsist release, from 2007; one-sided 12". "Half of the six songs on Jana Hunter's Carrion are unreleased hangers-on from the writing sessions that produced her most recent full-length, There's No Home, while the other half are alternate renditions of works that appeared on that release. But this is no mere grab bag of remnants; it's a real tight product, all around. 'Paint A Babe' is a throw-back to Hunter's earlier material, written and recorded simultaneously on a borrowed four-track recorder. A real sad, longing song. 'A Goblin, A Goblin' took a little more time to create: this strong, sturdy number, replete with violins and creepy harmony, tells the tale of an indignant outcast. 'You Will Take It and Like It,' turns one central, pretty and proud guitar part over and over and over, with others mirroring it, leeching from it, grabbing on like little parasitic danglers. The original version of 'There's No Home' is here, the track that spawned an entire record title, followed by 'Sleep' (titled, as it was originally, 'Ooh Uuh'), from the recording that ended up on a lullaby compilation. Concluding Carrion is an acoustic re-presentation of the country-minded 'Oracle,' stripped down to one guitar, one melody, and one harmony, as it was originally conceived in its creation as homage."

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