Abby Dalgleish - Violin;
Andrew McDonnell - Voice, guitar;
Michaela Nettell - Cello;
Kel Robb - Accordian;
Lorna Shipley - Flute, Glockenspiel, Percussion and vocals
Influences
A 1930's built semi-detached house, sitting in the parlour drinking Earl Grey from a Mason's white with pink pattern tea cup on a late October afternoon and talk of distant aunts who seem to have vanished into novels by Graham Greene, or worse Patrick Hamilton. Their traces left hanging on the walls next to bad oil paintings of children and horses, catching a hint of their lives like you catch someone cheating at Canasta.
Sounds Like
a moth drowning in jam, a big toe kicking a plum, a kid flying a kite into a pylon, a train on fire, a nun singing face down in snow, carpet burns, the inside of a hollow piano being hit by a gang of feral children with sticks, someone falling through a canvas of a snowstorm, the illusory land of Harry Ramsden's in Thurrock retail park, peanuts being scattered on a pub table etc etc.
My Dark Aunt were formed in 2004. Since then, they have entombed more members in amber, storing the instruments in railway station lockers and their shares of the spoils in florid mattresses, with 'How to locate' maps drawn on the underneath of city paving slabs. Someone described them as 'Mesmerising' and that the music and poetry 'took you on a waves swell and yet managed to bring you safely home'. We all like a squall, especially when it's blowing though the attic in a mesmeric fashion; after all, those 'waves' do like to 'fold behind villages' you know.
Recently recorded by Mr Russell Wickwar of WiQwar, they are planning something. So watch out!
My Dark Aunt proclaim 'There aint no moona, no moona inna joona, no moona left at all.' The collared doves however, they go a-coo, a-coo, a-coo.
"The Hand are Bristol-based musicians Rachael Dadd & Wig Smith. Together they share a love of folk, blues and world music and play an exotic array of instruments including Kora, Banjo, Ukulele, and Harmonium. They are touring the UK with Japanese solo artist Ichi, who takes the notion of a one-man band to new limits – combining steel drum with ping-pong balls, tape-loops, trumpet and xylophone.
Support comes from Norwich-based musicians Sam James Hill and Tenderlion plus Buffet Style DJ's playing music from the psyche's deli..."
„And they are more and more the descendants of the unclean ones. Millions of outcasts closed into themselves, seeking refuge in an other reality. Numbed souls on the highways of frenzy.
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