Lately, Courtney Werner has been involved with an impressively large percentage of the brilliant experimental folk music coming out of the American south. The sound artist and fiddle player is in Magic Tuber Stringband, Dowsers, and Weirs, which means I've been posting quite a bit of her output over the past year and change. Time to post some more!
This week Werner announced her debut solo album Tritium Forests. It's coming out on Thrill Jockey in February, and it finds her continuing to blur the line between music and her other career as an ecologist. Lead single "sierra one whiskey eight," for instance, was inspired by recordings of coyotes, barred owls, and whip-poor-wills in what our man Jeff Tweedy once called the Bible-black pre-dawn. "I tried to imagine myself as another voice in the soundscape, responding to and communicating with the calls," Werner says.
The finished track is haunting and magnificent, like Deliverance via claire rousay. Listen below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "november seven echo one"
02 "sierra one whiskey eight"
03 "november four echo one"
04 "sierra six whiskey four"
05 "november five echo three"
Tritium Forests is out 2/26 on Thrill Jockey. Pre-order it here.
