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White Swan Black Swan: Castle of Useless Junk |
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2007 ep release mixed by Mark Nevers (Lambchop) in Nashville.
White Swan Black Swan are Sonya Waters (Instigators,Fang,Orange)and Ben Howe (Fang,Superette) , Rick McShane (Chainsaw Masochist ,Nudie Suits) and Ben Furniss ( Surrealistic ,Walrus)
White Swan Black Swan make their music in a brick house on the edge of a sleeping volcano. Their house is furnished with out-of-date Super 8 movie projectors, old amplifiers, 70's lamps, faded paintings of imagined places, all keepsakes from a past era embellishing the musical landscape. The wooden floors echo with the sounds of warm vintage equipment and analogue technology. Their brick bungalow is a rural green oasis - hidden away for the city that surrounds it.
Combined, White Swan Black Swan have veered left of their indie- rock roots to explore different territories. The music is littered with acoustic pianos, cool Fender Rhodes tones, outmoded synthesizers drones , chiming hollow body guitars and spaced out old sound effects. McShane's drums give the music a swing into 60's cool jazz or a lurch into a European funeral march. Imagine these songs in a Lynch or Fellini soundtrack, a mix of south-of-the--border country combined with psychedelic folk.
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