Four Winds the Walker

by Spires That in the Sunset Rise

Four Winds the Walker cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 July 2005
  • Label: Secret Eye
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:55
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Georgia Vallas, Tracy Peterson, Kathleen Baird, Taralie Peterson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as a rotating collective of female multi-instrumentalists, the group channels an eerie, avant-garde wyrd-folk aesthetic on their sophomore outing. The highly improvisational acoustic tracks utilize unconventional stringed instruments, bells, and spectral vocal harmonies to generate an ominous, deeply surreal atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, vocal-group, experimental, folk, avant-garde, droning, DIY, atmospheric, female-vocals, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Four Winds (01:18)
  2. Wide Awake (04:14)
  3. Little for a Lot (04:21)
  4. Sheye (05:32)
  5. Sort Sands (05:28)
  6. Ong Song (05:54)
  7. This Aint for Mama (08:09)
  8. Shining (04:02)
  9. No Matter (05:32)
  10. Imaginary Skin (03:50)
  11. Serum (06:47)
  12. The May Ham (04:16)
  13. Born in a Room (04:15)
  14. The Walker (01:17)

Credits

  • Jacob Cats - artwork [front cover and disc art by]
  • Tracy Peterson - drums, drums, percussion, mbira, percussion, drums, thumb piano, washboard, performer [rattlers], tambourine
  • Georgia Vallas - zither, vocals, zither, vocals, lyrics by, autoharp, banjo [bowed banjo], banjo [turkish lap banjo], harmonium, drums, vocals, slide guitar [lap slide], autoharp [auto harp]

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