Clare Adrienne Cameron Hubbard and the Crystal Ship.
Influences
Sword of the Ancient, Flak Mask, Synergy, Environments, Shep and Me, Uke of Spaces Corners County, Justin Clifford Rhody, Angelo Badalamenti,
Sounds Like
".... the dog in the house who found as if through chanelling a human voice for its expressions" -GeraldPsyche from Belgium. Read his review here.
"a majestic framework of rural poetics and darkly colored orchestration...With an acoustic folk strum as anchor, Hubbard’s strong voice blends in and out of the chimerical atmosphere and becomes another leaden layer at times. Folk notions are subdued in an almost eerie ambience that ebbs from clanging bells and distant creaks that are more incidental aura than craft...More people should hear this engaging voice turn familiar gestures into untrodden and insolent music." -- Eric Weddle for Dusted Magazine
Hubbard is an artist completely and nakedly free... Caethua [is] in the unique pantheon of artists with a singular vision. She has created her own world, with its own symbols and magic. Yes, [her music] is that good Mike Wood for Foxy Digitalis
Caethua as the ghost, guides over an existence in a grey darkness and nature, as a naturally evolving soundscape, a naturally pulsing soundtrack, sounding like industrial insects with a woohoo singing, like the dog in the house who found as if through chanelling a human voice for its expressions SingerSong Homestead Music Blog
Caethua builds a majestic framework of rural poetics and darkly colored orchestration that manages to cross the aesthetics of Harry Smith and This Mortal Coil. With an acoustic folk strum as anchor, Hubbards strong voice blends in and out of the chimerical atmosphere and becomes another leaden layer at times. Folk notions are subdued in an almost eerie ambience that ebbs from clanging bells and distant creaks -- Dusted Magazine
Clare Hubbards voice is delicately weathered, strong and lamenting but never asking for pity. [her songs] burrow under your skin slowly until her voice twists with the icy wind in your ears and the buzzing din splashes along with tires on pavement-- Raven Sings the Blues Blogspot
Caethua has relocated to Belfast Maine and has opened up Walking on Ice, a music
and art space.
NEWS::
New Caethua Interview on Foxy Digitalis Click
Here to read it.
Brand New Caethua Track is now out in the latest compilation/collage book of Hockey Rawk,a mind-bending art/collage/music label-duo out of Sweden.
If you'd like to write to me, buy records, or do mail order
please visit my website, Saxwand.com
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Caethua and Yoni Mudder SOLD OUT
3 free witches on a murky front porch in Bloomington. Totally dark, totally improv, featuring Dorey Fox on Banjo and Vocals, Prianka Rayamajhi on Drums and Vocals, and Caethua on old guitar and vocals. Fireworks screeching and dog barking in foreground
add to the magick.
$5
Caethua Double CDR::The Pleasures of Manhood/Queenly Women Crowned and Uncrowned 15 new Caethua songs, half a tribute to poet Robley Wilson and half to the women in
her family. Many compositions show a new direction in Caethua's instrumentation and
process;less structured, with less of a divide between improv soundscapes and songs.
Comes with hand drawn colorful Caethua poster.
$5
Produced, recorded and composed by Caethua (front woman of SPORTS and sax player of DBH) this LP is a limited release, with each sorrowful ballad surrounded by meditation music and experimental sound pieces using saxophone, singing bowls, electronics, guitars, bells, water, and recordings from her recent boat trip through the length of the St. Lawrence River.
"a majestic framework of rural poetics and darkly colored orchestration..."--Eric Weddle
in his review in Dusted Magazine
$8
Caethua CD "Village of the Damned"
Reissued on BLUESANCT
Records Review pagan earthy experimental meditation music and sounds about winter death in the village of Dryden, NY (Limited left!)
$10
New Tape! Sold Out! Soon to be pressed to Vinyl.
If you are a small label, or just a philanthropist,
contact saxwandrecords@yahoo.com to help
fund the record release.
New Tape! Sold Out! Reissued to CDR on Saxwand
Review from "Raven Sings The Blues" music site
Ash flecked ghosts of folk from Bloomington, Indiana's Caethua; on her latest tape, Queenly Women Crowned and Uncrowned. Alternating between the thick fog of field recorded moans and lonesome folk wanderings through the burnt leaves of late Autumn. Much of Queenly Women feels shrouded in the grayed skies of October dawn; early frost clinging to the grass and the beginnings of a drizzle rumbling in the clouds. Its definitely not an album of celebration but its not necessarily dour, just delightfully gloomy. Clare Hubbard's voice is delicately weathered, strong and lamenting but never asking for pity. The album's tracks burrow under your skin slowly until her voice twists with the icy wind in your ears and the buzzing din splashes along with tires on pavement. Though I've heard little of Hubbard before this point it seems that she'll become deservingly more prevalent.
Split LP with Shep and Me
Coming Soon! Please contact saxwandrecords@yahoo.com if you'd like to help
put out the record.
Split collaberative tape with Dan Beckman, and a new solo Caethua tape
titled "The Pleasures of Manhood", out now on NightPeople Records visit SaxWand.com for other Caethua releases, and stay tuned for Spring tour dates and more.
i saw tema larter on saturday and she loves you and wants to know all about you. i told her you were making gentle hippie music and she sighed ever so softly.
CAETHUA, REALLY HOPE YOU GOT THE MESSAGE ABOUT THE VENUE FOR YOUR PHILLY SHOW! ITS @ 406 sOUTH sTREET SAINT MARCH COLLECTIVE GALLERY WITH BILE GREENE! SHAWN THORNTON! VULGAR REMEDIES! 4/3 7PM SHARP!
