- New Weird America
- Experimental folk
- Electronic music
- Indie folk
- Musique concrète
- Free folk
- Avant-folk
- DIY
- Improvised music
- Weird folk
- Americana
- Lo-fi
- Found sounds
- Freak folk
- Folk indie
- Primitivism
Comment: Beeches of Madame Ess`s 12-track issue is a
thought-provoking issue both by its sounds and concept. It was recorded while
the Pennsylvania, US-based quintet was travelling to arrive at Nova Scotia,
Canada. They recorded while staying at various campsites in Bangor Maine,
Cheticamp, and Blomidon. All the soundscape which consists of freaked-out yet
heartfelt lo-fi folk and indie compositions, warped electronic appearances (especially
The Gather of Sticks) and some field
recordings were created by using acoustic and electric instruments and battery
powered synthesizers. The issue was created even as there had been the
highlight of the so-called New Weird America movement since the first half of
the 00s. These ditties are expertly conceived surfacing the pristine nature of a
natural world where is left no place for the temporal categories but pure
beauty of nature seems to overwhelm all what used to be inside it and around
it. However, at Flora And Fauna slowed-down,
slightly murky electric guitar progressions do tingle one`s pure sensations to
have emerged previously from elemental sounds. Evening of Bliss might remind of early experiments by Animal Collective
though the Beeches of Madame Ess`s experiment is more incisive in its obvious primitivism
which reminds of an old-fashioned computer game or something. It cannot be wrong to say the amalgamation of natural sounds and artificial sounds provide invigorated impulses to the whole. The outing was
initially released in 2007 and a year later on Rack And Ruin (it is catalogued as
rrr096 in the discography of the label) which had been a definitive imprint
within the webaudio world from 2008 to 2011.