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Blank Tapes, the label that brought us Bass Clef, shift the goal posts on fans of dubstep with the new-folk type rambling prose of Thee, Stranded Horse: "Churning Strides". Inside we are treated to kora and guitar led ballads in English and French. Misty eyed, doleful with heartbreaking tones, especially the cracked, half whispered vocals. For fans of David Thomas Broughton sans experimentation.Blank Tapes is delighted to announce that the debut Thee, Stranded Horse album, Churning Strides is officially released this week. Buy it in shops, or - even better - buy it from us, by clicking on RELEASES and finding your way from there.
As previously reported, Churning Strides is eight tracks of Yann Encre's extraordinary guitar and kora playing: elliptical, mercurial, folk that looks forwards not backwards, and plays to a secret internal rhythm all of its own. It's also extremely beautiful. The Independent on Sunday describes the sequence of 'So Goes the Pulse' through to 'Swaying Eel' as 'eerily gorgeous'. Uncut reckons it's a 'weird, daring folk-blues experiment' that's 'slyly funny, subtly odd'
1 So Goes the Pulse
2 Misty Mist
3 Le Sel
4 Swaying Eel
5 Churning Strides
6 Tainted Days
7 Sharpened Suede
8 Fiend Over Your Knees
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