Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice '2022

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       Emma Ruth Rundle’s second installment in her Electric Guitar
series, EG2: Dowsing Voice, is like the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t
been made. The mostly instrumental record follows her on a trip to the Welsh
coast and down a magical well into the waters of nature, myth and the Old Golds
- by way of her improvised music. The 40 plus minute album was sewn together
from recordings channeled during her month-long solo journey in the early days
of 2020 and completed before 2021’s critically lauded album Engine of
Hell was even written. 
 
Unlike Electric Guitar One, EG2: Dowsing Voice features vocal improvisation,
unconventional singing and extended vocal techniques free from lyrics - like the
throat singing on “In the Cave…” which is meant to be the
voices of crones gathering in a rhythmic and physical ritual. Rundle was led to
these voices by unseen forces along with the immense impact of the Welsh water:
ocean, rivers springs and wells that gave the album its extended title Dowsing
Voice. While there is some focus on vocal and story here, her textural and even
bombastic guitar improvisations are featured throughout the album. The album is
accompanied by a massive body of visual artwork Rundle created in her studio
upon returning to the states in an attempt to further flesh out the world and
beings she encountered in the landscapes and music during her trip to Wales. The
blood self-portrait on the cover is from this series and is meant to capture the
moment after rebirth. For Rundle, the Electric Guitar series will always be
about inspired, unplanned moments like this at its core.

Tracklist:
01 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Intro to the Underpool: The Path, The Gate, The Field,
The Well (2:46)
02 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Keening into Ffynnon Llanllawer (3:23)
03 - Emma Ruth Rundle - In the Cave of The Cailleach's Death-Birth (2:01)
04 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Gathering around Pair Dadeni (0:55)
05 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Brigid Wakes To Find Her Voice Anew. The Little Flowers
and Birds Show Themselves (3:44)
06 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Imbolc Dawn Atop Ynys Wydryn. Ice Melts as The First
Resplendent Rays of Spring Pour Over The Horizon. (6:17)
07 - Emma Ruth Rundle - The Tempest on Trefasser (6:53)
08 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Don Danann Dana Danu Ana (6:50)
09 - Emma Ruth Rundle - Standing Stones Singing / Cellphone Towers Ringing Up To
The Darkening Sky (1:07)
10 - Emma Ruth Rundle - In Sadness For Our Dying World (here come the
Christians) (6:35) 

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