1 Omens From Birds (4:36)
2 Centaur Envy (3:46)
3 The Black Chimes (4:34)
4 Seekers In Darkness (3:31)
5 The Unicorn Murders (6:24)
6 False-Hearted Love (7:43)
7 Echippus (0:43)
8 Table Of Figures (2:53)
9 Secret Of The Rose Window (5:10)
Le collectif Jewelled Antler sous une des ses incarnations les plus free...
The Franciscan Hobbies are one of the more anarchistic manifestations of the Jewelled Antler 'collective', The Hobbies themselves being a free-form, free-wheeling group of variable membership that turns idyllic nature excursions into documents of magical, improv folk psych. At The World's End comes by way of New Zealand cd-r label PseudoArcana, and this time around The Hobbies include 3 of the 4 members of Thuja, plus a bunch of their friends, including Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards), Greg Bianchini (The Muons), and Cole Palme (Factrix). However, whoever's present on this recording isn't all that important, as they meld into a very relaxed communal music-making clan. Furthermore, discussion of instruments and techniques would seemingly convey less of a sense of what the Hobbies sound like than more poetic allusions to damp moss and dry leaves. Imagine napping in the undergrowth of a forest, dreaming drones and fractured melodies. Theirs is a drifting, indirect music, more hints and haunts than songs per se. And, we ask, how can you not love a record with a track entitled "The Unicorn Murders"??
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