Wai Notes, by Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Billy (CD on Sea Note)

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Drag City breaking news… ‘We’re going to release a new Bonny Prince Billy record imminently…’
Limited to 10,000 copies worldwide ‘Wai Notes’ represents the demo’s from Dawn McCarthy (Faun Fables) and Bonny Prince Billy for the album ‘The Letting Go’ (That came out in Europe on license via Domino).

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A must for all those fans who saw Bonnir Prince Bill and Dawn McCarthy perform the album ‘The Letting Go’ togerher on tour in 2007 and for fans in general of that record and these two fine artists…


Here are a couple of key reviews that ran for ‘The Letting Go’

"Moody and introspective guitar ballads are often transformed through the delicate use of a string quartet, with flugelhorn or electric piano matched alongside the violins, viola and cello.  And then there's the final, perhaps most important, addition to his musical lineup, the delicate vocal work from Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables, who either echoes his gently intense, introspective vocals in a higher octave, or adds her own atmospheric embellishments, as on the sparse title track, which features just acoustic guitar and the two voices, and has the sturdy, gently chilling appeal of a great folk song." -Robin Denslow, The Guardian

"But there's a revelation in this tender recording: the devastating prescence of Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy. Her voice trails and caresses Oldham's every motion like strings, the wind, memories, echoes, lives lost and found. Her bearing on the essence of 'The Letting Go' is glorious, her defiant harmonies convey both bruising intimacy (Lay Here and Love You) and bruised desolation (Then the Letting Go). Crucially, they signify a shift in Oldham's definitions of love: someone is singing these words back at him, as he reaches out- (not) letting go."         -Nicola Meighan, Play Louder

Plus some general artists quotes!

‘McCarthy is the perfect vessel for a Gothic Folk tradition’  UNCUT

“Whether recording as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Palace Brothers or just plain Palace, WILL OLDHAM, is one of the most enigmatic, brilliant songwriters in America.” UNCUT
“Old Testament troubadour or a Dylan for the digital age? WILL OLDHAM is one of the most perplexing, enigmatic and inspired figures in modern American music.” MOJO

TRACKLISTING

1.    THEN THE LETTING GO
2.    STRANGE FORM OF LIFE
3.    LAY AND LOVE
4.    GOD IS LOVE
5.    THE SIGNIFYING WOLF
6.    THE SEEDLING
7.    I CALLED YOU BACK
8.    WAI
9.    CURSED SLEEP
10.    GOD’S SMALL SONG

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