ANTIETAM
EPISODE 7: DEBBY SCHWARTZ
Debby Schwartz is a complex animal; she floats easily among identities: New York City rock 'n' roller; sophisticated folk artist in a Pentangle lineage, with haunting modal melodies; recording artist in the mode first crystallized in the 1970s (the musician, player, multi-instrumentalist, stretching-out experimenter); mood painter—all guises gathered into songs with hooky choruses and verses emerging out of twists and turns— and through it all, she's literate, aware, and conscious of self in the best, focused, artistic sense.
And if you can't hang with all those fancy descriptions, just check out her beautiful songs here, "Sitting in a Garden of My Own" and "My Hope," and her banter with Chris ranging from Tolstoy to her imitations of psychic Sylvia Browne.
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1 NEG-FI
Meet the inward-facing bookends of the Neo-No Wave, Ryan Walsh and Evelyne Buhler.
A song is a song is a song is a Greg Peterson.
She writes. She writes songs. She writes hooks. She plays guitar. She loops. She juggles (probably). She starts record labels (definitely).
Sort of like 75 Dollar Bill meets the Shams. No, more like Run On meets Timber. Not really, Vietnam meets V-Effect. Hmm, maybe...
5 P.G. SIX
The harp. The voice. Environmental guitar.
Janine Nichols, Charlie Burnham, Brandon Ross: Semi-Free but All-Everything Else. Jazz not what your trio can do for you. Folk springs eternal.
Modal rocker major-minor harmonizer song singer writer. "Debby Schwartz has hands like Bert Jansch and a voice like the autumn moon."
Georgia Hubley steps out from behind the drums to shape time and space on guitar. “Shifting & swelling electric guitar clouds, faint birds. gorgeous.”- Jesse Jarnow
Robert Dennis, AKA under_cooled, introduces us to his "uglient" sound, asking us to re-hear the mundane in a new light.
JAMES ROOT
JIM CRICCHI
ANDRE THEISEN
camera
MAX ROSENTHAL
animation
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