This Week in the Mercury
Monday, March 30, 2009
MP3 Sarah Winchester - The Northeast Kingdom Demos
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Good news for people who love A Weather news. According to an update from Sarah Winchester, the whispering (shhhhh-core?) bedroom pop band has recently wrapped up recording the basic tracks for album number two, the follow-up to last year's Cove. No word on when this record will see the light of day, but we'll keep you updated.
In other Winchester news, the A Weather singer—and occasional maker of merch table teddy bears—spent her winter recording a little solo EP entitled The Northeast Kingdom Demos. Similar to the quiet music of her other band, Winchester's solo songs are very intimate, as she explains:
...I am pleased to announce, I finally made something I'm calling Northeast Kingdom Demos. This winter has been long, as winters tend to be. I think recording made it go by a lot faster for me. I'm calling the collection a "demo" because I just used Garage Band and the internal microphone on (the wonderful) Aaron (Gerber)'s computer, so the demo label fits. You can hear a lot of clicks and bleeps and dogs and low-flying airplanes.However, as far as recording goes, I consider this an achievement. I have always struggled with recording my own songs, and somehow, it finally happened. The timing was right.
The Northeast Kingdom is the nickname for the northeastern corner of Vermont, the state I am proud to say i hail from. The NEK has been listed as one of the "1,000 Places to See Before You Die", which is fitting because it's an extremely majestic and wooded area, but unearthly and eerie as well. The songs spring from this description; family and woods and love and death.
The best part, is that the EP is all yours, for free (just get an account—also free—at the Team-Love download library). And since you are not paying for this music, you can now afford that trip to Vermont. Have fun on the Ben & Jerry's factory tour.
LISTEN:
Sarah Winchester - "Northeast Kingdom"
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