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awake in the winter

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Released: Oct 1, 2011

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awake in the winter
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General Info

Genre: Electroacoustic / Folk / Melodramatic Popular Song
Location Montreal, Ca
Profile Views: 9506
Last Login: 1/13/2012
Member Since 1/2/2009
Website goosemusic.ca
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
Rachel Elliott started goose in 2009 as a sometimes solo, sometimes quintet arrangement with fellow Coal Choir musicians Melanie Benard, Ruth Ainsworth, Kate Forrest, and Arwen Flemming. Inspired by the Coal Choir's folky-choral-drone, Elliott sought to create a sound expressive of the emotional turmoil she recognized in liminal natural spaces: "The best parts of a city are the natural areas that have been simply left alone and not developed. These are fraught spaces - particularly dangerous spaces for a lone woman to dwell in. But that is exactly what I want to do! And its what other displaced animals want to do to." The name 'goose' comes from the Canada Goose, ubiquitous to the waterways of Southwestern Ontario where Elliott grew up, and a bird always under suspicion. Its a migratory bird both eerie and silly, qualities which characterize her music as well. By 2010 the group settled into a duo consisting of Elliott and Melanie Benard. Together they performed small acoustic shows around town but soon expanded again to include Laura Schultz, Christine Agozzino, Amber Phelps Bondaroff, and Jeremiah Riehl. It was in approximately this configuration that goose recorded their first full length album entitled The Fence Around My Grave. This album is currently available on bandcamp: http://goosemusic.bandcamp.com
Members
Rachel Elliott (piano, banjo, vocals), Laura Schultz (cello), Fiona Ainsworth (accordion), Christine Agozzino (drums)
Influences
Mary O'Hara, Roscoe Holcomb, the Kings of Convenience, Nick Drake, the Cranberries, Within Temptation
Sounds Like
refracted loon on midnight lake, or doing the dishes, in equal measure