Horse Feathers – House With No Home
Posted on | May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments
My long-running appreciation of quiet, introspective songcrafting is filled with gentle melodies by Damien Rice, M. Ward, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine, Mary Gauthier, Ferron, Anne Briggs, Bon Iver etc. There’s something about the practice of exorcising the deeper and sometimes darker aspects of a life into a song where they are safe and still and observable.
Three piece, multi-instrumentalist band Horse Feathers brings together sparse acoustic guitar, pleasantly simple melody lines, swirling and jabbing strings and whispery harmonies to create a pocket of space that inspires thoughts of soft, dark nights, trouble in mind and old-time souls.
House With No Home weaves banjo, drums, zither, saw, trumpet and several other instruments with grace and agility, leaving space around the heart of the songs to establish a matrix of support that lovingly presents them as delicate treasures with soft centers for us to explore.
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May 30th, 2009 @ 3:10 PM
Have you listened to any Damien Jurado?
May 30th, 2009 @ 5:34 PM
Not in a while. Can you recommend a good album (or songs) to check out?
May 30th, 2009 @ 11:28 PM
I’d love to. He’s actually released quite a few records, but since you’re into the intimate sounding stuff, I’ll try to go off that :
The song “Ohio” from the album “Rehearsals for Departure” is probably his most famous, it’s been covered by a few random other artists. That album overall is really good, and one of his earliest. And more recently, along the same vein of that quite-folk type sound, the album, “And Now That I’m In Your Shadow.” I really dig the song, “Denton, Tx” from that.
He’s got a few other albums that aren’t as quiet, but still kind of possess the same folk-sound, my favorites being “On My Way to Absence,” and “I Break Chairs.”
May 31st, 2009 @ 3:47 PM
Thanks for all the info and suggestions Timmm. I’m going to the record store today – I’ll see what we have in stock.