Possible Confusion Species

by Pefkin

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1.	All Aboard the Music Boat 02:01	info	buy track
2.	When the Pirate Ships Go Off Air 05:58	info	buy track
3.	Made in 1973 01:53	info	buy track
4.	The Terror of the Wild Wood 11:11	info	buy track
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7.	The Last Great Auk Left Alive 11:12	info	buy track

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Released on Rural Faune.
The cdr came with a twig and features a photograph of basking shark vertebrae, washed up at Ardneil Bay, Portencross.

Review from The Rainbow Notebook:
This is the most recent release by Scottish Musician Gayle Borgan who runs the Boa Melody Bar mail order. This cd-r came out last year on French cd-r label Rural Faune who release some really beautiful stuff in lovely packaging. Like the Maan Matoset comp I mentioned a few posts back (which was on Peippo/Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Äänet) this one includes a little twig. You've got to love cd-r's which have twigs in them. The music on this well lives up to its presentation.

The cd-r opens with "All aboard the music boat", a delicate instrumental featuring what sounds like a melodica and a glockenspiel. This sparse, yet melodic piece seagues into "When the pirate ships go off air" which is similarly haunting in mood, with Borgan singing of "daydreams and decaying sound". This sweet musical box melody fractures into something more dissonant and ghostly sounding halfway through the track. This balance between the melodic and more noise based electronics is one thing Borgan has in common with artists like Kuupuu and Grouper. This cd-r was recorded by John Cavanagh, who recorded one of the tracks on that last Kuupuu tape. He also contributes some clarinet on "Doodweg".

Though each song is short, they are loose in structure and one blends into the next so that the album almost flows like one long piece. I would liken listening to this cd-r to tuning into a radio station with a weak signal; you get snatches of songs, melodys and strange noises and silences between (that idea was actually part of the inspiration for my blog title, though it's not original).

The next piece, "Terror of the Wild Wood" is very appropriately titled. In this ominous sounding flutes meet mournful bells and other small rattling sounds. This mutates into a spooky backwoods blues about halfway through, with wordless vocalizations by Borgan and skeletal acoustic guitar. It is certainly a highlight and a fittling centrepiece for the cd-r. "Nuts for July" is also very aptly named as it sounds like a pile of little nuts being rattled amidst melodica and plucked strings.

All in all it is a stunning and entrancing release - I recommend it!
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released January 1, 2008

Written by Gayle Brogan.
Recorded at Glo-Spot by John Cavanagh.

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Pefkin Sheffield, UK

Pefkin is the alter ego of Gayle Brogan, creator of slowly-unfolding, ritualistic hymnals that draw heavily on the landscape and natural world.
She is also a member of Burd Ellen, Greenshank and Meadowsilver.

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May 3

Samuel Worth Chapel

Sheffield, UK

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