Robin Crutchfield
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"Robin Crutchfield"
Male
55 years old
NEW YORK, New York
United States
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| General | Cinnamon * Molasses Sponge * Tea * Lime Sherbet * Peppermint * Autumn Leaves * Falling Snow * A Warm Blanket On A Windy Day * Wind Chimes * Drones * Harps * Dominoes * Sandalwood Incense * The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew * A Quiet Place
A Window With A View * Raymond Roussel * Marcel Duchamp * Jean Arp * Antoni Tapies * Remedios Varo * Grimm's Fairy Tales * Alice In Wonderland * Dr. Seuss * Edward Gorey * Grey Days * Mark Ryden * Victor Brauner * Leonora Carrington * Charles Addams * Wind Rustling Through The Pine Needles
* Russian Tea Cakes * Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith * My Little Dog Pearl * Painting | | Music | Deux Filles * The Incredible String Band * Slowdive * Chet Baker * Harold Budd * Weekend * Roger Eno and Kate St. John * Yoko Ono * Julie London * The Raincoats * Nico * Young Marble Giants * Carmel * Love Unlimited * Bananarama * Mylene Farmer * Charlotte Gainsbourg * Jane Birkin * Virginia Astley * Jeri Southern * Annette Peacock * Peggy Lee * Ivy * Tino Rossi * Maria Callas * Smack Dab * Millie Small * Isabelle Antena * Moondog * Dusty Springfield * Astrud Gilberto * Noonday Underground * Stereolab * Free Design * Chris Montez * Fit and Limo * Francoise Hardy * Simon Fisher Turner * Vashti Bunyan * Colleen * Feathers * Goldoolins * Erik Satie * James Blackshaw | | Movies | Fellini's Satyricon * Stroszek * The Mole People * Dark Passage * The Phantom of Liberty * Even Dwarfs Started Small * The Young Girls of Rochefort * Curse Of The Demon * Midnight * The Birds * Smashing Time * Valerie and Her Week Of Wonders | | Television | The Avengers * As Time Goes By * Perry Mason * Good Neighbors * Boston Legal | | Books | Raymond Roussel-Impressions of Africa * Grimms Fairy Tales * Lewis Carroll-Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass * Yoko Ono-Grapefruit * Pierre Cabanne-Dialogues With Duchamp * Arp on Arp * Benjamin Peret-From The Hidden Storehouse * Werner/Williams-The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies * Ernst Haeckel-Art Forms in Nature * Chesney-Tesla: Man Out Of Time * Edward Gorey-The Black Doll * Edward Gorey-The Water Flowers * | | Heroes | Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith * Moondog * Nico * Yoko Ono * Annette Peacock * Arp * Victor Brauner * Leonora Carrington * John Cage * Gertrude Stein * Dr. Seuss * The Incredible String Band * Feathers * Alfred Hitchcock * Nikola Tesla * Erik Satie * Lewis Carroll * Remedios Varo. |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | |
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About me:
http://robincrutchfield.com
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Hey friends give a listen to my latest 'harp and drone acid folk' CD "Robin Crutchfield-For Our Friends In The Enchanted Otherworld" on Hand/Eye: via site above.
Description from Hand/Eye: A tiny treasurebox from a lost garden, “For Our Friends in the Enchanted Otherworld,” finds Robin Crutchfield further exploring his unique world; one of delicate harp compositions, glissando, and deep drones. Soundscapes for daydreamers of this and other worlds.
His new solo explorations have been described by Devendra Banhart as “beguiling, powerful, hypnotic, mesmerizing, commanding, delicately unnerving, lilting, mellow,” and “tense as hell.”
Thanks for the support from all my friends.
I hope you like the musical peek into the enchanted otherworld.
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Hear a sample of my solo harp music at left -- "Witching And Walking" (which is listed with the other samples on my Dark Day music page--first friend below).
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More info. about me can be found at: www.rlcrutchfieldsdarkday.homestead.com *****************************************************************************
SongsForFaerieFolk---
Spherical walking pickings of delicate sounds from instruments like harp, lyre and tampura, in semi-eastern and middle eastern and medieval chords tell a story like a 1001 night fairytale for the fairy folk, or how to become a witness to their world and nature and thus solve the spell that only works for those who don’t respect them...Most elves stories are about a subtle world closer to nature's perspectives, where elves are a bit suspicious of humans and sometimes threaten them. It is as if the ability of them to curse men, protects them for humans entering their world without having enough respect. I imagined it is music like that on Robin Crutchfield "Songs for Faerie Folk" which are like the kind of subtle, gentle simple excursions with some variety that can prepare a human who's world has much faster, stronger, sharper, harder contrasts to get used to the calmer, sweeter world of the Faerie World.
http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/acidfolkreview16.html#anchor_363
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ToadstoolSoup---
Like the previous cd, we have miniature, magical pieces on harp, or with various multi-track harps and a bit of echo, handshakers, wood, and other small percussion, here and there some water and glockenspiel, mixed more often with the droning Indian tanpura. The pieces are a bit longer and melodic, and recall faeric spheres, like slower and faster rondo dances, based upon a simple, fundamental thematical and rhythmical tune. A short, but convincing soundtrack of a faerie world ready to step in.
Psyche Van Het Folk review
http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/acidfolkreview16.html#anchor_363
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Robin Crutchfield
For Our Friends In The
Enchanted Otherworld
HAND/EYE CD
Robin Crutchfield is one of the more enigmatic
musicians around. After making waves as a
performance artist in New York in the late 70s,
he played keyboards in the original version of
DNA with Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori, until
deciding they weren't as interesting as they
might be. He then formed Dark Day, originally a trio with Nina Canal of Gynecologists/Ut and
Nancy Arlen of Mars. This version never
played live, unlike later line-ups with Jim
Jarmusch, members of Tuxedomoon and
others. Dark Day explored wide varieties of
keyboard textures and machine theories, and
went through several distinct phases.
In its final incarnation, the group
investigated some of the odder possibilities
lurking inside British folk traditions. The vibe of
their last album, Darkest Before Dawn, was
akin to Comus or Current 93. Abandoning the
group name, Crutchfield delved ever more
deeply into this style; and his explorations are
continued on For Our Friends In The Enchanted Otherworld , his third solo album.
The music is largely based on instrumental
harp glissandos: shimmering cascades of
notes pouring down amidst birdsong, tanpura,
bells and other woodland instrumentation.
Crutchfield's compositions still have some of
his old mechanistic hallmarks, but they've been recast as steampunk visions - huge delicate
wooden wheels, spinning and plucking and
plunking inside his fevered imagination. Which
turns out to be a great place to visit -
somewhere between Early Music, new volk
and contemporary classical. This album is not
quite like anything else you'll hear this year,
and it's pretty goddamn brilliant.
BYRON COLEY
The Wire
No. 287 (Jan. 2008)
SOUNDCHECK p. 55
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Hand/Eye Robin Crutchfield : For our Friends in the Enchanted Otherworld (US,2007)****
The instrumentals by Robin Crutchfield are played by harp, tanpura, wine glass, toad, wooden flute, bells, stomping boot, jinglebox, flying machines, sampler, and forest friends.
And an Enchanted world this is : very magical minimalism, miniatures that sound very often like dew from elves that flies by with the wind, and this expressed in a musical form. The first three tracks are small variations of harp with droning tanpura. On “Finding Our Woodland Way” the harp dances (-,from right to left,-) between sounds of forest creatures, as if this describes the presence of a Chinese elf or spirit creature. New also is “In Crystal Caves” where there are used airy glass sounds in combination with harp. Between other organic harp tracks (partly with additional sounds), “The Birds Know” is another original, short track, which is based upon a magical forest sounds that become keyboard-like loops. “Enchanted Ice Cream Truck” is magical like wind-chimes, as if combined with tiny bits of piano sounds, and it sounds like a natural musical box. Between two other harp theme tracks, “Magic Puffbox” is also another short beautiful weird moment, of remixed sounds, with a world on its own. “Dwarfish determination” gives an original variation of this particular world, sound rich and minimal in its nature, but still much more a composition of a dance than a loop.
This is very descriptive music, a true musical ode to the little friends in the enchanted other world.
-Gerald Van Waes
psychevanhetfolk
PSYCH/ACID HEAD FOLK related items REVIEW PAGE 16
http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/acidfolkreview16.html#anchor_447
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I moved to New York City in the mid-1970's to participate in the growing Soho and Tribeca performance art scene. After some critical success, I crossed over into music co-founding the experimental No Wave noise band DNA, which recorded tracks for the No New York album with Brian Eno. After a year with DNA, I departed to form my own musical project, Dark Day, with an array of various guest performers including Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Nina Canal from Ut, and others. I continued on alone releasing a number of albums in styles ranging from cold wave, to medieval pagan, to quirky electronica. Erroll Morris noted the odd nature of my work and commissioned tracks for his Bravo TV series "First Person", televised in 2000.
At the turn of the millennium, I wrote and published a series of faerie tales. After the purchase of an African drum, several psalteries and harps, a lyre and a tanpura, I now devote my musical output to attempting dreamy soundscapes that paint aural pictures of the enchanted otherworld.
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