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"...a gorgeous snapshot of the free psych underground, one of the purest spaces of otherworldly terrain in the current musical landscape." - Pitchfork "Backwards backwoods playing, electronic effects, a shortwave
radio and some knob twiddling are all incorporated into their sound,
which twists from traditional folk Americana to beatbox Improv and back
again. Nothing, however, is quite what it seems, and this constant
sound shifting gives Alexander and Goldberg's musically metamorphic
contribution to the New Weird America cult an edge over the
competition. For BF/BS are genuinely strange." - The Wire |
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BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA is the Providence duo of Jeffrey
Alexander (mostly guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play
free-form music that draws from folk traditions. The have toured
extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to
Reykjavik and Portland to Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS
full-length, and the 2nd self-titled album - recorded in Providence,
RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest performances by Italian
sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds) and Miriam's sister
Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister - Gillian Goldberg -
provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate voice, ur-pedal,
casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord.