Family Swan, the

Northwest duo, man on guitar w/ woman singing, occasionally adding minimal sounds, organ, woodblocks. But mostly just guit + vocs. Guit, electric, is mostly played over itself rhythmically with delay and noise. Vocs are storytelling, near performance art. These two have been around for almost 20 years, and this captures a live sound, with almost no overdubs. Rather minimal, simple, noisy, weird.

1) pensive guit w/ slow voc melodies
2) more rhythmic, almost boogy woogy
3) twist on classic poem “…when they came for me there was no one else to stand up…” with lead guit overdubs
4) minimal feedback and guit noise, looping, w/ nonsense vocalization, sorta Diamanda-like
5) psychedelic eastern drone tone
6) brief experimental sample loops
7) long about dysfunctional family, fucked up
8) simple clean guit, ballad poem-like
9) louder bar chords 10) slow somber organ, minimal dirge like, funeral home muzak