Recording: Joyful Joyful

Artist: Joyful Joyful

Song: At the Bit

Recorded at The Gladstone Hotel's Ballroom (Long Winter, Vol. 7.3), January 4, 2019.

Joyful Joyful - At the Bit

This night at Long Winter started with a fab discovery. Cormac Culkeen and Dave Grenon's mix of ancient and contemporary drones — folk structures floating atop pedal-enabled electronic soundbeds — is haunting and more than a little church-y, in the sense that you could well imagine these sounds swirling upward into some distant, darkened arched ceiling.

[I dug this band so much I booked them to play Track Could Bend (Tuesday, March 5th), where they'll loosen their song structures with some improvised explorations. Meanwhile, Long Winter Vol. 7.5 will be at Workman Arts on Friday, March 29th. Lineup Announcement Coming Soon!]