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Interviewed by Dusted, keyboardist and guitarist Jordan explains, "I think that all of us in Feathers regard music as some sort of spiritual endeavor, and I imagine that would come across in the songs." Guitarist, vocalist and bassist Asa concurs: "I live on a cold mountaintop and heat my house with a wood stove. This lifestyle must influence my music, but I have no deliberate mystical intentions. I'm just being poetically sincere."

Feathers already issued two CDRs and the vinyl version of this album on their own Feathers Family label, attracting gobs of attention from fellow musicians and discerning music fans all over. It's only a matter of time before they join contemporaries Devendra Banhart, Espers, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver as a central power in the freak-folk axis.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Old Black Hat With A Dandelion Flowers
To Each His Own
Past The Moon
Ulna
Van Rat
Silverleaves In The Air Of Starseedlings
Ibex Horn
Come Around

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Deceptively simple, clear and concise, these songs surround and envelop, seeping into the skin until they are a part of you. Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom is a collection of songs written over the period of a decade. The album is a thirteen-song ibest of,i recorded on four-tracks, two-tracks and computers, mostly in Texas and mostly alone.

Featured on the Devendra Banhart-curated, Arthur-produced CD Golden Apples of the Sun and sharing a recent split vinyl-only release on Troubleman with him, Jana Hunteris album is the initial release on the Gnomonsong imprint, a spectacular new label begun by Revolver USA, Devendra Banhart and Vetiveris Andy Cabic.

iJanais frail, reedy voice and delicate finger picking make her sound like a young man lost in a peat bog and plucking toads from toadstools to see whether theyill spill their secrets.i --Boston Phoenix

iHunteris songs are so honest, yearning and intimate, youid be forgiven in thinking that youire eavesdropping on someoneis private thoughts.i --Eric Boucher, Artvoice

30-second MP3 excerpts:

All The Best Wishes
The New Sane Scramble
The Earth Has No Skin
Christmas
Laughing & Crying
Farm, Ca.
Heatseeker's Safety Den
Have You Got My Money
Restless
The Angle
Untitled (Hanging Around)
Angels All Cry The Same
K

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"Paint A Babe" is a throw-back to Hunter's earlier material, written and recorded simultaneously on a borrowed four-track recorder. A real sad, longing song. "A Goblin, A Goblin" took a little more time to create: this strong, sturdy number, replete with violins and creepy harmony, tells the tale of an indignant outcast. "You Will Take It and Like It," turns one central, pretty and proud guitar part over and over and over, with others mirroring it, leeching from it, grabbing on like little parasitic danglers. The original version of "There's No Home" is here, the track that spawned an entire record title, followed by "Sleep" (titled, as it was originally, "Ooh Uuh"), from the recording that ended up on a lullaby compilation. Concluding Carrion is an acoustic re-presentation of the country-minded "Oracle," stripped down to one guitar, one melody, and one harmony, as it was originally conceived in its creation as homage.

"[O]ne of the best and most underrated luminaries on the neo-folk scene, Hunter ... toured the east coast ... [in the] summer [of 2006] by sailboat. Her meditative, playful, sparse, acoustic-driven songs are refreshing, somber, and sometimes eerie.... [T]he most excellent There's No Home ... finds Jana exploring ever so slightly poppier tunes." --Shawn Bosler, Village Voice

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Paint a Babe
A Goblin, a Goblin
You Will Take It and Like It
Ooh Uuh (Sleep Demo)
There's No Home (Demo)
Oracle (Acoustic)

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As extroverted as Hunter's previous release Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom was introverted, There's No Home focuses on community involvement. While Hunter plays most of the instruments herself, she's aided and abetted here by her brother John (Inoculist, Dethro Skull), John Adams (Fatal Flying Guilloteens) and Matt Brownlie (Bring Back the Guns), among others.

In 2004, Hunter made a big splash among fans of distinctive music with "Farm, CA," a track featured on the Devendra Banhart-curated Golden Apples of the Sun collection released by Arthur magazine's Bastet label, followed by a vinyl-only split with Banhart on Troubleman.

Late the following year, Hunter's full-length debut was the inaugural release on Gnomonsong, a label founded by Banhart and Vetiver's Andy Cabic in conjunction with Revolver USA. A thirteen-song "best of," compiled in part from various CDR releases, this collection garnered impressive critical acclaim.

Hunter spent the bulk of 2006 touring Europe and the US (including one string of East Coast dates traveled by sailboat). She hits the road again April, 2007

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Palms
Babies
Valkyries
Vultures
Movies
(Guitar)
Regardless
Bird
Pinnacle
(Guitar)
Oracle
Recess
Sirens
Sleep
There's No Home

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Most songs have the simplest of arrangements: Hurley singing solo, accompanied by his guitar, Wurlizter organ, or fiddle. Tara Jane O'Neil helps lend a nice touch to "El Dorado," and Snock calls upon frequent past accomplices Dave Reisch and Louie Longmeyer for their graceful touch on sleepy winners like "New River Blues" and "Gamblin' Charlie." As with all Hurley's albums, once one sets the needle down, one is put in a certain peace and place. His voice and songs are unique, shuffling with characters and visions clear and wild. With Ancestral Swamp, it seems Snock has left his front door open a bit wider than usual. If you lean in close, you can inhale a little of the vapor rising off the water, and enjoy a tale or two.

Snock has personally test marketed The Ancestral Swamp and the results are in: "The Ancestral Swamp is actually a good party record, even though fraught with dirges of dying and death."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Knockando
Dying Crapshooter's Blues
Lonesome Graveyard
New River Blues
El Dorado
1st Precinct Blues
Light Green Fellow
Gambling Charlie
Streets Of Laredo
When I Get Back Home
She Got A Mathematic

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The first formal Papercuts release, Mockingbird (2004), received a warm critical reception, earning four stars in Great Britain's Uncut. The song "Pan American Blues" was a top-five download of the week on insound.com and the album rode the CMJ Top 200 for months.

Before this, life was different. Raised in a commune in Humbolt County, Quever drifted up and down the West coast, eventually making a home for himself in San Francisco.

The seeds of Papercuts were sown in 2002 when he broke into a vacationing friend's apartment, eight-track in tow, to record piano tracks for Cass Mccombs' Not The Way. Ever since, Quever has kept busy, playing with and recording other friends' bands. He's collaborated with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, The Skygreen Leopards, as well as Vetiver, and considers working intimately with such contemporary songwriters to be a significant influence.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Dear Employee
John Brown
Summer Long
Unavailable
Take The 227th Exit
Outside Looking In
Sandy
Just Another Thing To Dust
Found Bird
The World I Love

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The first formal Papercuts release, Mockingbird (2004), received a warm critical reception, earning four stars in Great Britain's Uncut. The song "Pan American Blues" was a top-five download of the week on insound.com and the album rode the CMJ Top 200 for months.

Before this, life was different. Raised in a commune in Humbolt County, Quever drifted up and down the West coast, eventually making a home for himself in San Francisco.

The seeds of Papercuts were sown in 2002 when he broke into a vacationing friend's apartment, eight-track in tow, to record piano tracks for Cass Mccombs' Not The Way. Ever since, Quever has kept busy, playing with and recording other friends' bands. He's collaborated with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, The Skygreen Leopards, as well as Vetiver, and considers working intimately with such contemporary songwriters to be a significant influence.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Dear Employee
John Brown
Summer Long
Unavailable
Take The 227th Exit
Outside Looking In
Sandy
Just Another Thing To Dust
Found Bird
The World I Love

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In the words of Danielle Stech Homsy (the artist behind Rio En Medio), it is "music that wants to listen as much as be heard." Special touches were contributed to some tunes by Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Sierra Casady (Coco Rosie), Tim Fite and David Coulter, among others.

Over the past year, Homsy has performed and recorded with a variety of prominent artists, among whom are Vashti Bunyan, Devendra Banhart, Tarantula A.D., Larry Yes and The Art of Flying, Fite, CocoRosie, and Vetiver. She performs regularly in New York, where she lives, and recently appeared at England's All Tomorrow's Parties festival. Now, armed with her baritone uke and a faithful team of instrumentalists, she is preparing to storm the globe.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

You Can Stand
Heaven is High
Tiger's Ear
Everyone is Someone's
Europe a Prophecy
Girls on the Run
Kill the Messenger
Joe was on the Plane
Friday
I See the Star
The Baghdad Merchant's Son
LibertE

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Produced by Thom Monahan and Cabic, Thing Of The Past was recorded in 2007 in Sacramento and Los Angeles. The basic tracks were done live in the studio, with the resultant record clearly showcasing a tight-knit band of hugely talented musicians. As witnesses to their live shows over the past year will attest, this is a group in full mastery of their craft-- fluid yet fully aligned, intuitively opening out or reigning in their power as the mood dictates. Featuring core Vetiver members Cabic (vocals/guitar/banjo), Brent Dunn (bass), Sanders Trippe (guitar/vocals), Otto Hauser (drums/keyboards) and Kevin Barker (guitar/banjo/vocals), the album includes contributions from two of Cabic's heroes, Vashti Bunyan (who duets on "Sleep A Million Years") and Michael Hurley (who does likewise on his own "Blue Driver"). Other players include "Farmer" Dave Scher (keyboard/pedal steel/melodica), Jason Quever (piano/keyboard), Ben Kunin (sarod), Jonathan Wilson (acoustic guitar), Emma Smith (violin), and vocalists Meara O'Reilly and Abigail and Lily Chapin.

From good-time rocking on Hawkwind's "Hurry On Sundown" and Loudon Wainwright III's "The Swimming Song" to the beautiful triptych of songs that runs from Biff Rose's "To Baby" through Ian Matthews' "Road To Ronderlin" and Garland Jeffreys' "Lon Chaney," this is a diverse and harmonious collection of songs. With the album so centered around the lasting resonance of the song, the focus inevitably falls upon Cabic's warm, honey-toned vocals, which are perfectly suited to the material he's gathered. Rather than obvious plundering from the well-worn rock cannon, these are largely overlooked and forgotten tunes (spanning a period from 1967-1973, and mostly by US songwriters), dusted off, reverently refashioned, and given the opportunity to sing again. Though a few of the artists covered are well-known, many are not, and in selecting and performing these songs, Vetiver have appended enduring versions very much their own. As Cabic comments, "I think this is the best album I've yet to make, in no small part because the songs are so good, but also because I didn't write them, which offered me a useful combination of restraint and freedom in performing them, bringing out the best in myself and the other musicians. It was an experiment, and it was one of the best experiences I've yet to have recording anything."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Houses
Roll On Babe
Sleep A Million Years
Hook & Ladder
To Baby
Road To Ronderlin
Lon Chaney
Hurry On Sundown
The Swimming Song
Blue Driver
Standin'
I Must Be In A Good Place Now

Produced by Thom Monahan and Cabic, Thing Of The Past was recorded in 2007 in Sacramento and Los Angeles. The basic tracks were done live in the studio, with the resultant record clearly showcasing a tight-knit band of hugely talented musicians. As witnesses to their live shows over the past year will attest, this is a group in full mastery of their craft-- fluid yet fully aligned, intuitively opening out or reigning in their power as the mood dictates. Featuring core Vetiver members Cabic (vocals/guitar/banjo), Brent Dunn (bass), Sanders Trippe (guitar/vocals), Otto Hauser (drums/keyboards) and Kevin Barker (guitar/banjo/vocals), the album includes contributions from two of Cabic's heroes, Vashti Bunyan (who duets on "Sleep A Million Years") and Michael Hurley (who does likewise on his own "Blue Driver"). Other players include "Farmer" Dave Scher (keyboard/pedal steel/melodica), Jason Quever (piano/keyboard), Ben Kunin (sarod), Jonathan Wilson (acoustic guitar), Emma Smith (violin), and vocalists Meara O'Reilly and Abigail and Lily Chapin.

From good-time rocking on Hawkwind's "Hurry On Sundown" and Loudon Wainwright III's "The Swimming Song" to the beautiful triptych of songs that runs from Biff Rose's "To Baby" through Ian Matthews' "Road To Ronderlin" and Garland Jeffreys' "Lon Chaney," this is a diverse and harmonious collection of songs. With the album so centered around the lasting resonance of the song, the focus inevitably falls upon Cabic's warm, honey-toned vocals, which are perfectly suited to the material he's gathered. Rather than obvious plundering from the well-worn rock cannon, these are largely overlooked and forgotten tunes (spanning a period from 1967-1973, and mostly by US songwriters), dusted off, reverently refashioned, and given the opportunity to sing again. Though a few of the artists covered are well-known, many are not, and in selecting and performing these songs, Vetiver have appended enduring versions very much their own. As Cabic comments, "I think this is the best album I've yet to make, in no small part because the songs are so good, but also because I didn't write them, which offered me a useful combination of restraint and freedom in performing them, bringing out the best in myself and the other musicians. It was an experiment, and it was one of the best experiences I've yet to have recording anything."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Houses
Roll On Babe
Sleep A Million Years
Hook & Ladder
To Baby
Road To Ronderlin
Lon Chaney
Hurry On Sundown
The Swimming Song
Blue Driver
Standin'
I Must Be In A Good Place Now

During the recording and mixing of To Find Me Gone, producer Thom Monahan and Vetiver mainman Andy Cabic talked about attempting something more "deconstructive and electronic" than what the two had previously done. For this, they selected the album's initial two songs, "You May Be Blue" and "Been So Long."

"The beginning of 'You May Be Blue,' the delayed Wurlitzer organ figure," says Cabic, "on its own suggests what might follow could be quite different from the song that does.... [It also] promises some kind of electronic shuffle, and the remix is an opportunity to follow through. My favorite parts of 'Been So Long' are the harmonies of Nathan, Rachel and myself, and I wanted to create an instrumental drone dub version of that song which focuses on the backing harmonies."

Long-time studio partners, Cabic and Monahan-- a.k.a. Neighbors-- built these remixes in spurts between their busy schedules. After a lot of layering and ProTooling, practically nothing of the original "You May Be Blue" remains; the bulk of the dark and danceable instrumentation consists of keyboards played by Cabic and Otto Hauser, and electronic drums played live by the both. Cabic and Monahan also reordered the basic tracks of "Been So Long" and added powerful new droney parts on the melodica and pedal steel by Farmer Dave Scher and the breathily intoned flute-playing of Alissa Anderson. Much additional editing wizardry on the part of Monahan helped complete the metamorphosis of these tracks with new, unique characters that sit alongside the original versions.

While this is their first release in a long time, it's not that Vetiver hasn't been incredibly busy--the band has toured the US and Europe numerous times, including opening on Shins' recent US tour; Cabic has also written/recorded with and regularly toured North and South America and Europe as a key member of Devendra Banhart's band.

Besides this new 12-inch, Vetiver has just finished work on a new album (and singles) comprised entirely of cover versions of their influences, which is set for release in spring '08 on Gnomonsong. An album of all-new Vetiver material is also currently being written which will be recorded shortly and is set for release in 2009. The band will be touring all through 2008.

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