Dana Falconberry and Medicine Bow - From The Forest Came The Fire on CD

Description

Intricately layered and multi-textured, Falconberry's avant-folk songs are the aural equivalent of the disparate and wondrous landscapes of the United States. Trace the back roads branching out from Dearborn, Michigan and the Leelanau Peninsula across the country to Austin, Texas to understand Falconberry's personal and musical history. An adept lyricist, Falconberry has always captured the stunning imagery of her surrounding physical geography, as evident on her last acclaimed album, Leelanau. Written in a series of solitary retreats into remote areas of the Ozarks, Lincoln National Forest, the Buffalo River, and White Sands, New Mexico, these songs chronicle an introspective, metaphysical journey set to a backdrop of the American continent. Drawing from her early experiences with classical music through her work as a ballet dancer, Falconberry couples traditional notions with influences from Austin's diverse independent music community to create intricate, modern folk songs with an experimental edge. Falconberry's transfixing live performances have the ability to turn a chattering bar into a pin-drop silent room, but she also enjoys finding inherently quiet spaces to perform her elegant chamber pop. After playing shows at both White Sands National Monument and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Falconberry is making steps to orchestrate an entire tour of U.S. National Parks in the Summer of 2016. Features Thor Harris (Swans/Shearwater) on three tracks. "Her music is gentle yet intricate: a rusticated chamber music using banjo, cello, and staggered, contrapuntal vocal harmonies"- New York Times. "The mood is tense, insistent and inscrutable: It feels urgent even as it seems to sit in place." -Pitchfork