Description
Consequence and more. Emma Ruth Rundle’s second instalment in her Electric Guitar series, EG2: Dowsing Voice, is almost 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. For Rundle, the Electric Guitar series will always be about inspired, unplanned moments like this at its core.
Tracklist:
- 01. Intro To the Underpool: the Path, the Gate, the Field, the W
- 02. Keening Into Ffynnon Llanllawer
- 03. In the Cave of the Cailleach’s Death-Birth
- 04. Gathering Around Pair Dadeni
- 05. Brigid Wakes To Find Her Voice Anew. the Little Flowers and
- 06. Imbolc Dawn Atop Ynys Wydryn. Ice Melts As the First Resplen
- 07. The Tempest On Trefasser
- 08. Don Danann Dana Danu Ana
- 09. Standing Stones Singing / Cellphone Towers Ringing Up To the
- 10. In Sadness For Our Dying World (Here Come the Christians)
