"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Monday, November 06, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
A Vintage Burden by Charalambides

Charalambides: A Vintage Burden
Kranky 5/30/2006

Available on Emusic

Charalambides lie somewhere in the more psychedelic end of the 1960s revival spectrum. Whereas many of their freak-folk contemporaries favor minimalist arrangements and whimsical ditties, Tom and Christina Carter completely saturate the listener in raga-like song structures and mythic themes. Deliberate and plodding guitar lines and somber drones hold the songs down, which then gradually lose ballast and rise, buoyed by Christina's gorgeous voice. A couple of the songs on A Vintage Burden take nearly twenty minuted to unfurl, but Charalambides manage to keep them interesting nonetheless.

Posted by Jonathan at 5:48 PM

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