Sword of the Ancient, Flak Mask, Synergy, Environments, Shep and Me, Uke of Spaces Corners County, Justin Clifford Rhody, Angelo Badalamenti,
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".... 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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NEW CAETHUA RELEASES FOR SALE
Caethua Double CD Set "The Long Afternoon of Earth"
newly issued on Preservation Records The first set, No Mans Land, is acoustic-based, with songs haunting
in their hypnotic way, finding common ground between the rustic and spectral
in the spell they cast.
The second disc combines piano, guitar, raw beats and almost
industrial-type textures alchemically fused for an altogether different mood
more theatrical, lamenting and spooked.
$16 (2 cds)
Caethua + Ancestral Diet Split Tape on Goaty Tapes
2 10 min.long compositions, the first Caethua's dark song-take
on Artificial Intelligence made aural with organs, loon calls, and cello //
the second Caethua and Andy Neubauer make sweet industrial techno love calls
high in a cold atlantic-beach cedar forest. Limited .
$6
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
$10
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!)
SOLD OUT
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.
Also in the works:
NEWS::
Brand New DOUBLE Caethua EP out now on Australia's Preservation Records
Brand New Goaty Tapes split between Caethua and Caethua side project Ancestral Diet featuring Andy Neubauer of Impractical Cockpit and Flak Mask now
available through Goaty Tapes and Saxwand Records
Also in the works is an Ancestral Diet LP coming soon from Goaty Tapes
Caethua and Shep and Me split LP Wrecks and Rescues/Tube Mind
coming soon!
Caethua is also working on a Split Collaborative Tape with
Dan Beckman, which will be released by Night People Records.
Jonahpallooza Dos 2009!!! Benefit for Jonah Larrama. Our Mt. Happy brother Jonah needs to raise serious $$$ to get his green card so he doesn't have to get sent back to El Salvador.
Happy Birthday magical and mystical songstress and beauty. It was nice to spend your birthday with you to-day, even though we were at work. I hope a savory, yummy something happens just for you, when you need it most. love Bunny
