"From the ashes of the Iditarod rises this remarkable new musical vehicle. Jeffrey Alexander plays a plethora of instruments, when there are vocals they are mostly by Miriam Goldberg, who also plays some omnichord, drums, and employs her cello to great effect throughout. Black Forest / Black Sea are at once darker, and warmer than the Iditarod, Miriam's voice is much less chilly. The former band's more folky overtones have been replaced by a much wider and more complex musical vocabulary that spreads it's wings to include; free improvisation, field recordings, chamber music, ghostly atmospherics, psychedelia, drone, pop, early Brian Eno, ancient euro folk roots, and much more; to be truly beguiling on this all too brief introduction." - George Parsons, Dream Magazine, Nevada City, CA
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