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Monday, December 15, 2008
MP3 Arctic Death: A Salute to Winter Weather - Part Three
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Brooklyn based singer Brittain Ashford makes spare, gorgeous folk songs, with a crystalline coldwater voice and various pluckings from autoharps and dulcimers. Here's a seasonally appropriate song from her Hinah session recorded in France back in March (you can hear more here); it's a song that doesn't appear on her fantastic, haunting record There, But for You, Go I—but I can't think of a better song to listen to as my circulation slows to a crawl and my extremeties become numb. She'll be in town next week playing a show with Shelly Short. Hopefully things will be warmer by then, but Ashford's nourishing voice is capable of generating its own heat.
LISTEN:
Brittain Ashford - "Snow" (from Hinah session)
Brittain Ashford plays at Valentine's on Tuesday, December 23.
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