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Wig Smith

About Me

What people have said about my music :
“Wig’s as skilful a picker as a Spanish flamenco master, generating and altering the rhythm of his songs in a way which makes it appealingly difficult to predict where they will go next.”
--------- Jumped Up Pantry Boy
Wig Smith plays a fiendishly complex
21-stringed kora like a dulcimer muted
in velvet with fragile and charming songs about snow and toes.
-------- venue magazine review from a gig at the folkhouse in september 2008
The tiny unofficial Eco-Stage in Queen’s Square saw captivating impromptu
shows from a whole plethora of Bristol folksters
like Suzy Condrad, Rachael Dadd, Wig Smith and Jetfly.
--------- Suit yourself magazine review of bristol harbour festival, August 2008.
The timbre which is close to the harp and is clear, makes blankly good feeling.
With also the singing of Wig Smith which is done and is cute.
It compares, if is, removing the album of former times,
when bosom oak everyone and others watching,
like feeling the work…With you will say?
It is the music where in any case good nostalgia wraps kindly.
--------- www.pastelrecords.com review, december 2008 (badly translated by babelfish)
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Member Since: 12/18/2006
Band Members:
You can buy my album here
and it comes with a free EP
of my piano compositions
it's £8 including postage
which I reckon is a bargain
and both have beautiful artwork
by my friends Jeni and Lou

please contact me here, or at:
[email protected]

Me and my kora,
guitar,
piano,
borrowed harmonium,
ukulele,
Rachael Dadd singing on some songs and playing clarinet.
Influences: Trees and russian fairy-tales,
so much music -

Jan Johansson
Benjamin Britten
Diane Cluck
Michael Hurley
D.K.Pattamal
Toumani Diabate
Rafael Puyana
Jana Hunter
Larkin Grimm

and poetry -
Jo Shapcott
Miroslav Holub
T.S.Eliot
Alice Oswald
Ezra Pound
Sounds Like: Walking in the woods,
I am not a scientist,
plinky-plonky,
talking toes,
autumn.

Record Label: Uk - none
Japan - Angel's egg
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

My album is available here <<< or on itunes/emusic/napster etc...

You can buy my album on my myspace page if you like -its £8 including postage to anywhere and I'll throw in my piano EP for free...Also, if anyone wants to do a swap, I love doing swaps!You can buy th...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:36:00 GMT

Looking for gigs in the UK and EUROPE

Hello! We are two musicians from Bristol who play collectively as The Hand, and separately as Rachael Dadd and Wig Smith. We have recently returned from Japan where we were touring to promote o...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:57:00 GMT

Lyrics to my album...

here are the lyrics to my album...1.Frost       (based on the russian fairy-tale known as twelve months or, in russian, dveenatsat meesyatsev)We've woken to lots of snow,...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:15:00 GMT

A day in Brighton.

Fish carcass and sea sponge.All those pebbles, potential for thopping. Full of rich italian food,old codger Gordon strolls with an arthritic limp,imitates the morose popular song. Skeleton of the old ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:06:00 GMT

New york 4 (belated)

Grass under my feet, the lake frozen at prospect park - the clearest sky, the birds do sing. Banana pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. Through the trees, a bird entirely red ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:38:00 GMT

New york 3

Grand central station, painted constellations.Staten island ferry, coffee and doughnuts.Bitter cold fingers, going to pete's mandolin shop.Met a sweet lady from kiev on the 48 to forest avenue. She wa...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:25:00 GMT

Ramirez and unknown. (New York 2)

Words inspired by art from the museum of american folk art:   Martin Ramirez : Trains, and tunnels of towering petals, a golden transom, colossal mane. Egypt is in the colour, faded paper like ...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:13:00 GMT

New york 1

19/01 What do people think about on buses when they are listening to techno? Dank sweaty clubs, pelvis thrusts, fuck faces, snorting in the toilets? See, I understand dancing to it, but see few other ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:02:00 GMT

Springtime and the sentience of toes.

Cold solstice passes,performs the equinoctial inversion of curfew.A steady drip of day, undwindling,and night's saturation ensues.Then flora comes, all vernal,bringing a nascent rust to the copper bou...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:35:00 GMT

Top of paradise bottom

This must be one of the giant redwoods they talk about -it looms like authority over infants and is greatly enjoed by spiders.It is a curious alien amongst common pine,a rigid pillar in the lanky sway...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:13:00 GMT