Sing a Song of Memory continues Sarah Louise's exploration of Appalachian ecosystems and the music that springs from soil. This 22-minute-long EP is part folk, part ambient electronic, and even drifts into drone metal territory.
Sing a song of memory: of these hills, of these lives, intertwined. We're intertwined all our lives. So long ago they placed their feet on this same stretched of road. I eat the bread, the bread that springs from soil. And I think of all the life this land must hold. It's why we care for these hills.
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In classical minimalism there is the debt of influence to rock's chugging repetitions. 75 Dollar Bill pays the influence back, their endless loops looping like Philip Glass jamming with John Cale-era Velvet Underground. Add a penchant for West African harmonies and you have an album I will voluntarily drown myself in, again and again and again and again. nowideau
William Ryan Fritch's enthralling, doomy new CD comes housed in a gorgeous, panoramic gatefold sleeve with bewitching original artwork. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2016