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IMPREC 370EP
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IMPREC 370CD
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After a seven-year hiatus, Boneset is the seventh album from modern folk artist Diane Cluck. Cluck's uniquely clipped, glottal vocals and harp-like acoustic guitar embed in rich textures from cellist Isabel Castellvi and drummer Anders Griffen. Recorded to analog tape at Brooklyn's Trout Recording, Boneset is comprised of songs written years ago, not so long ago, just recently, laid out in near-chronological order. Dark to light to dark, the album overends as a kind of Mobius strip, songs seeded with birds, death, wealth, poverty, boldness and heart. "Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling." --Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons); "Cluck's sparse compositions seem to float defiantly from some fortress the conscious self had long left behind." --The Providence Phoenix
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"These songs were recorded at home from 2001-2004. Spontaneous songs, not like those worked on/recreated for live shows. For me they are direct communication. I have no idea what, if anything they might mean to other people. It feels good to offer them that way. Sometimes I'm asked why or it's assumed I intend to make 'lo-fi' recordings -- it's really just that when the baby's coming you don't always have time to sterilize the rags. When I hear a recorded song the music rises up & out from any tape hiss, digital clicking, etc... In my experience it doesn't interfere with what's happening/being conveyed. What is happening? An attempt to share & to connect thwarts & acceptances." -- Diane Cluck. Melodic innovation and off-kilter, bewitching harmonies -- an insanely beautiful album. Limited stock....
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IMPREC 078CD
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"This deluxe double CD, priced the same as a single disc, pairs up Diane Cluck's second full length album Macy's Day Bird with the EP titled Black With Green Leaves. Both were originally released by Diane in elaborate, tiny handmade editions. These are arguably Diane's most compelling, immediate and striking records and it was these two recordings that originally caught the ear of Important Records in 2001. Macy's Day Bird/Black With Green Leaves is highly recommended to Diane's many new fans who picked up on her after the release of Oh Vanille/Ova Nil in early 2005. The attentive listener will find her hauntingly clear voice weaving melodies of love, pain and city life through sparse arrangements of piano, acoustic guitar and harmonium. This material is newly restored/mastered by James Fei."
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