Nils Frykdahl Discography of CDs

Nils Frykdahl songs After years of playing the role of guest vocalist and harmony arranger-in-chief for Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy finally gets to split the bill on What the Brothers Sang, a lovingly crafted, laid-back collection ...

Nils Frykdahl music CDs Half a dozen LPs in, this 22-year Czech band is free of its remarkable founding narrative as a band banned by the former Communist Czechoslovakian regime just for existing. (And you thought the post-Grundy Pistols had trouble ...

Nils Frykdahl CD discography Dawn McCarthy's songs conjure medieval folk tunes, beatnik coffee-house poetry, and avant-garde sound sculptures. All of which sounds like it could be a disaster, until her extraordinary voice and her fine sense of musicality is brought into ...

Nils Frykdahl discography Self-proclaimed Rock Against Rock purveyors Sleepytime Gorilla Museum create a brand of off-kilter avant-rock that borrows from Captain Beefheart, Sonic Youth, and John Zorn. Alternately ambient and thrashy, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum dash conventional expectations with a malicious ...

Nils Frykdahl albums Charming Hostess have something interesting in mind with The Bowls Project. The inspiration comes from texts found buried in demon bowls 1,500 years ago in Babylon (modern-day Iraq). These aren't the only things here (there's also a ...

Nils Frykdahl CD discography Originally composed for a performance art piece, the avant-folk duo Faun Fables' THE TRANSIT RIDER is a theatrical song cycle centered on the idea of becoming lost in an ever-more confusing network of tunnels and trains. Inspired ...

Nils Frykdahl music CDs The eclectic avant-folk and performance artist Dawn McCarthy brings her wide-ranging vocal and instrumental talents to this collection of dark, richly imaginative songs, aided by the multi-instrumentalist Nils Frykdahl. Recording information: Berkeley, CA; Milwaukee. Arranger: Dawn McCarthy. Faun Fables: Nils ...

Nils Frykdahl songs A TABLE FORGOTTEN is an EP by Oakland's psych-folkie Faun Fables, essentially the one-woman show of Dawn McCarthy. It is a departure of sorts from her several albums on Drag City, both in its brevity, and in ...

Nils Frykdahl albums Vocal work has allowed itself to be moved deeply into the realm of the personal and the ritual. Whether it be the work of Meredith Monk and her personal, spiritual, and mythical narratives; Laurie Anderson's searching for ...

Nils Frykdahl discography There was a time when Brooklyn, like Queens and the Bronx, was the butt of jokes among born-again neo-Manhattanites. While true New Yorkers never felt that way -- they knew all along that Brooklyn had a lot ...

Nils Frykdahl CD discography Charming Hostess, a vocal trio comprised of Jewlia Eisenberg (who wrote all of the music for this set), Marika Hughes, and Cynthia Taylor, performs Jewish traditional songs, a trio of poems turned into music, and ten pieces ...

Nils Frykdahl albums An avant-metal spectacle of the most obscene, obese and obstinate, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum sound like a brigade of skeleton soldiers marching through post-industrial cities decorated by the finest of silken banners to cover up the decay. Singer ...

Nils Frykdahl music CDs The eclectic avant-folk and performance artist Dawn McCarthy brings her wide-ranging vocal and instrumental talents to this collection of dark, richly imaginative songs, aided by the multi-instrumentalist Nils Frykdahl. The partnership evokes pagan rituals, performance art, and ...

Nils Frykdahl discography A three-member women's chorus of East European-styled vocals is rousingly accompanied by nervous violin, guitar and Old World folk percussion. Charming Hostess' ...