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Release Date: 12 July 2024
Label: Spinster Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457180666
Genres: Folk
Description
To write the songs on their second album, Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter, who record together under the name West of Roan (members of Doran), spent time in collective imagination, journeying to their respective inner worlds and under worlds. As they simultaneously discovered and created a psychic landscape of story, song, archetype, and image, a figure emerged: The Queen of Eyes.
Schermer and Showalter recorded Queen of Eyes themselves, in a small one-room, off-grid cabin on Waldron Island off the coast of Washington State. They ran their ear trumpet condenser microphone off an extension cord connected to the main source of solar power. This recording session--with one microphone, one computer, one cord, and one bench the two sat on--captures the emotional intimacy of their music, along with occasional pops from the fire that heated the cabin, instrument creaks, and breathing sounds. This feels especially fitting for West of Roan's approach; when you hear them sing you get the sense that they are first singing for and to each other, and emboldened by each other's presence, together they make their offering to you, the listener.
Tracklisting
West of Roan
Doran
Yasmin Williams
Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy
Lou Turner
Las Lloronas
Gerard van Maasakkers
Stick In The Wheel
David Carroll
The Ipanemas
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Jeffrey Foucault
Joan Osborne
