Browse by Artist: JOSHUA

Artist:	JOSHUA
Title:	Gold Cosmos
Label:	FEATHER ONE'S NEST RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FONR 003CD

"Based in Western Massachusetts, Joshua plays occasional live shows that never fail to stir the spirit-pot. Whether beaming layered vocals and effects-trammeled whistling (whistling!) into the anticipatorily puckered o-minds of the audience, paying tribute to the great Jansch, or rambling down forgotten paths w/ archaic stringed instruments, the guy never fails to heat up brain coils that I'd forgotten I have. In many ways, however, his most potent material is crafted in dark singularity, late at night, w/ tape rolling and moist nodes of fever pulsing gently in the dark, soft air. On this album, helped by kindred souls from Tower Recordings, Six Organs of Admittance, and Dredd Foole, Joshua achieves a kind of dream-loaded perfection that is the purview of very few. As the fools in the mainstream underground rush towards a platonic ideal that dehumanizes the process of creation, Joshua embraces the quivering meat wheel that rotates in the center of all humankind. It is nothing less than a pinnacle of splendor. Subtlely acknowledging influences that range from C.O.B. to the Guild of Temporal Adventurers, it moves through the fair like a wraith." --Byron Coley

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