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shopping
Due no doubt to some chemical imbalance, I have chosen the week preceding Christmas as a perfect time for a CD shopping spree. I'm not worried that other people's gifts will duplicate my purchases--everything I'm buying is pretty obscure, and I think the people who give me presents have all learned that their choices should be obscure too, so there's not much chance of overlap--but there is a problem of overload. I just don't have the opportunity to digest this much music this fast.
Anyway, part of my spree was the discovery, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
beautifulnoise, of ToneVendor, and today the package arrived (to my surprise--I wasn't expecting it before Christmas). Here's what it contained:
Anyway, part of my spree was the discovery, thanks to
beautifulnoise, of ToneVendor, and today the package arrived (to my surprise--I wasn't expecting it before Christmas). Here's what it contained:- CDs by Aurore Rien, Midsummer and Coastal (split CD), Pia Fraus, and For Against, none of which I'd ever heard of before last week.
- A blue ribbon neatly tying them together.
- A button for Allen Clapp, of whom I have also not heard.
- A handwritten note ("happy listening, erik" with a smiley AND a heart) on Pucca stationery ("Garu is the boy whom Pucca likes very much. Soundless Jumping power and remarkable landing is his ability.")
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Let's see--I'm terrible at genre in general, but recent acquisitions that at least remind me of folk include Rick Lassiter (http://www.ricklassiter.com/) (from the CDBaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/) part of the spree), the new live album by Alison Krauss and Union Station (from Miles of Music (http://www.milesofmusic.com)), Kings of Convenience (http://www.kingsofconvenience.com/), and local singer/songwriter/pianist Vienna Teng (http://www.viennateng.com/).
And since I'm... not shutting up yet... current folk-ish listens: Tim Easton, Deb Talan, the Be Good Tanyas, and, constantly, Hem (http://www.rabbitsongs.com/).
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