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LARKIN GRIMM
Larkin Grimm (now based in Providence, RI) was born in a Memphis, TN commune and grew up in Dahlonega, Georgia in the foothills of the Appalachians with a family of singers and fiddlers. This year Larkin has mesmerized audiences across Europe with a snowballing troupe of fans following her from town to town and at the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence where she has been noted as a festival highlight by almost blogging 'Scopehead on the planet. Larkin has shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Mi and L'au and Brightblack Morning Light. Nomadic by nature, she'll be touring around the US and Europe for the forseable future, continuing to win converts everywhere she goes.


SECRETEYE RELEASES

  • [AB-OC-29] The Last Tree
  • [AB-OC-18] Harpoon


    LINKS
  • Larkin Grimm website
  • Larkin on Myspace
  • interview on Foxy Digitalis


    [AB-OC-29] LARKIN GRIMM - The Last Tree

    thelasttree

    CD only
    $11 USA; $15 World

    1. The Last Tree      [MP3]
    2. Into the Grey Forest, Breathing Love
    3. I Killed Someone (part 2)
    4. There Is a Giant Panther
    5. Little Weeper      [MP3]
    6. The Most Excruciating Vibe
    7. No Moonlight
    8. Strange Creature
    9. The Sun Comes Up
    10. Link In Your Chain
    11. Rocky Top
    12. The Waterfall

    Larkin Grimm abducts you into her dreamscape/homeland, hidden behind veils of kudzu and falling water, populated by old friends and deadly monsters. Urgently direct, she is offering us a New World couched in old Georgia sounds: thunderstorms, dulcimers, footstomps, handclaps, and pleading soul-blues. This is not precious forest-pixie music; this is the beautifully flawed sound of the force of Nature, a Siren call to bind all souls and draw them into the deep Woods.

    [AB-OC-18] LARKIN GRIMM - Harpoon

    harpoon

    CD only
    $11 USA; $15 World

    1. Entrance
    2. Going Out
    3. Patch It Up
    4. Pigeon Food      [MP3]
    5. I Am Eating Your Deathly Dream
    6. One Hundred Men
    7. Future Friend
    8. Go Gently
    9. Harpoon Baptism
    10. I Killed Someone
    11. Don't Come Down, Darkness
    12. Touch Me, Shaping Hands
    13. White Water

    Larkin's intense, ecstatic voice with swirling multi-tracked patterns recalls the richness of Illuminations-period Buffy Sainte-Marie and the sparkle of Linda Perhacs. Her instrumentation includes duclimer, pennywhistle, bells, drums and guitar. Larkin was previously a member of the Dirty Projectors (Western Vinyl) where she astounded audiences with her mesmerizing voice. She has also played shows with folks such as Entrance, the Microphones, Old Time Relijun and her brother Joe Grimm's project the Wind Up Bird. Larkin also toured with Viking Moses following her performance with him at the Arthur Festival in Los Angeles. Larkin Grimm is a very special artist and Harpoon is a truly magical recording.

    REVIEWS
    'Guiding her way with little more than guitar, dulcimer, and multi-tracked vocals, Grimm here quilts together Born Heller's icy, backwoods songcraft, Jana Hunter's homespun, lo-fi shimmer, and the ecstatic vocal peaks of Christina Carter- the influence of Grimm's roots in the Georgia foothills frequently creep through, lending the music a deep-set, handed-down fiber that sounds at once staunchly traditional yet still somehow quite unearthly.' - Matthew Murphy, Pitchforkmedia

    'her voice not only soars high, but swings low and earthy under itself.' - Nick Southgate, The Wire

    'these folkish excursions are fraught with translucent hallucinations and nuanced floating smoke dreams. If you could merge Devendra Banhart and Fursaxa into one being; it might sound like this.' - George Parsons, Dream Magazine



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