Anastasia Coope // Darning Woman LP [BLACK/COLOR]

アメリカ・NYのフォーク作家Anastasia Coopeが、2024年5月に同国インディアナのインディーレーベルJagjaguwarからリリースしたレコードです。

ベッドルームフォーク9曲を収録。45rpmです。

前作もオススメです。

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Available on 12" black vinyl or 12" white vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. He is On His Way Home, We Don't Live Together 02:50
2. Women's Role in War
3. What Doesn’t Work What Does
4. Darning Woman
5. Sounds of a Giddy Woman
6. Woke Up and No Feet 03:40
7. Sorghum 01:40
8. Newbin Time
9. Return to Room

Text excerpt by Libby Webster via the label:

"The feeling that Anastasia Coope's music transmits seems to emanate from a precipice beyond the material world, like a void or memory pressing up against the veil. It’s exacting and enveloping, but unmoored in space and time: ghostly, spectral, far-out folk. Darning Woman, her debut album, feels like a dispatch from another past. Akin to lullabies or nursery rhymes, its minimal folk instrumentation contorts into something staccato and strange led by Coope's expressive, stratified vocals.

In spite of the suggestion of antiquity that runs through Darning Woman, 21-year-old, Brooklyn-based Coope is very much a contemporary artist. Born to an English father and American mother (whose original Martin acoustic she uses to compose), she was raised in the New York village of Cold Spring. The lonely landscapes and small towns of the Hudson Valley populate her songwriting, setting wintry backdrops against the acrobatics of her voice. Her experience making this record was a largely insular one, too; she began recording music while staying at a relative’s empty home in Beacon, NY, experimenting with recording software in an empty living room, singing directly into the open space. Until that point, Coope had only thought of herself as a visual artist, not a musician– but it felt right immediately. Throughout the next year, she worked to invent the lush, sweeping universe conveyed here.

Her voice is the core of this work - emotive, oscillating between shadowy effervescence and something more guttural, building atop itself. Coope spent months teaching herself to sing in a new way, through hocketing and layering her voice, constructing choirs of herself. These songs often start from a chorus or phrase that gets stuck in Coope’s head and bloom into chaotic, fractured earworms. There’s a slew of past cultural touchstones that inform her approach to music making – the avant-garde art rock of the ‘80s; Trish Keenan or Su Tissue or Brigitte Fontaine; medieval choruses; church choirs; contemporary folk; romantic close harmonies groups of the ‘50s; Meara O'Reilly’s Hockets for Two Voices. But rather than the sonics of those works, Coope was instead moved by the ephemera surrounding them, their songs’ abilities to conjure whole worlds..."

Artist : Anastasia Coope

Label : Jagjaguar

CAT No: JAG456lp