STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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April 16, 2010

Blaque Boose – “Winter” b/w “Past Lives Owen” 7” (Eternal Otter)

Something about Portland, ME must engender groupings of records by small labels. In the footsteps of the L’animaux Tryst Field Recordings record club, which had plenty to offer in the way of folk and traditional music, comes a similar pass by the Eternal Otter label. This single, the Cerberus Shoal and the Aly Spaltro/TJ Metcalfe split single are part of something called the “Death, Rebirth & Transformation” series. All artists are local to Maine, and all seem to be working in the folk idiom (Cerberus Shoal having been all over the map in the past 15-20 years). Blaque Boose are a large form, female-led group, performing a haunting brand of stone mill chants and forceful, naturalistic spirituality. “Past Lives Owen” adds a bit of digital processing to the sigils it carves into the earth, though the weirdness factor stays closer to the neo-folk angle than to history’s diktat. It’s being released on Record Store Day 2010 and also available digitally. Chilling stuff. (http://eternalotterrecords.blogspot.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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