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The Otherfolk

Songs of Innocence and Experience

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THIS IS THE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF THE OTHERFOLK. THESE 4 TRACKS ARE THE ONLY FINISHED RECORDINGS.
There are many possible responses to being lost in the wilds. You can stay put and wait for help. You can build fires and flash mirrors and construct huge SOS signs by piling stones on the ground. You can pray. You can throw yourself off a cliff. You can try to find your way out by backtracking, or you can plunge on ahead. Or sideways. Or in circles. It makes no difference which method you adopt, though it is a reflection of character, and an expression of style. The romantic is a dangerous impulse, easily confused with the most pathetic sentimentality, yet so wonderfully capable of a magnificence borne and illuminated not by mere endurance, but by a joy so elemental it will gladly risk the foolishness of it's likely failure. There are lessons that even the wisest council can't prevent us from learning. Each raindrop is different unto the river and equally waters the trees. Reality is final. But it is not complete. How could it be without the Mystery Train hurtling through our dreams? How could it possibly be complete without imagining that together we have all dreamt it up, to make it real, so that at this moment, right now, our entire lives could come to this provocative state of affairs. That train is the Dawn Death Zephyr, burning human breath and broken dreams for fuel. ALL ABOARD!

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Member Since: 12/4/2006
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Influences: Paul Auster, Jim White, Alabama 3, Simon & Garfunkel, P.J.Harvey, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Woven Hand, Elvis, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Roky Erickson, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Bruce Springsteen, White Stripes, Suzanne Vega, Echo & The Bunnymen, Jesus & Mary Chain, 16Horsepower, Handsome Family, Wim Wenders, Dylan Thomas, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Neal Cassady, Ghost Riders, Ghost Chasers, Flannery O'Connor, Lao-tzu, The Great Jim Dodge, Marc Bolan, Johnny Seven Moons, John Foxx, Pythagoras, Plato, C.G.Jung, Kant, Mikio Kaku, Adam Kadmon, Paul Auster, Bertrand Russell, Darren Aronofsky, Kafka, Harold Pinter,Tina Modotti, John Hoyland, 4080peru, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werner Herzog, Antony Gormley, Frida Kahlo, Robert Hooke, Laurie Anderson, HP Lovercraft, Gun Club, Tom Verlaine, God, Cream, Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Jim Morrison, Steve Reich, The Stooges, Velvet Underground, Brian Eno, 13th Floor Elevators, Jung, Violent Femmes, Sun Ra, The The, Seeds, Birthday Party, William Faulkner, David Lynch, J.G. Ballard, W.S. Burroughs, Eyeless In Gaza, deaf America, the weather & the whether or not, Daniel Pearce, Spiritualized, Dalai Lama, The Wild, The Beautiful & The Damned, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Joshua Springfield, Happiness, The Empty Quarter, The Raoul Dukes, Mr. Vertigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Alchemists, Magicians, Outlaws, Artists, Myth-singers, Outriders, anarchists, shamans, earth mystica, Ghost riders, Ghost chasers, Legends, tragedies, William Blake, gypsies, mad scientists, dreamers, mathematicians, and other socially marginal souls, Volta, Life, Death, the sun & the moon, English Roses, Lakeland & Silver, the dissolved, natural born people, Smiling Jack, The Rev Double Gone Johnson of The Rock Solid Gospel Light Church Of The Holy Trinity, Mexican women, Italian women, Buenos Aires beauties, Brooklyn Follies, time, space and everything between the whiskey & the fire.

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Sounds Like: Long, thin, red ribbons draped across the arms of a little mortal girl.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None