Jacken Elswyth – Six Static Scenes
Jacken Elswyth sent a note about this release being out and wanted to share. As with all of the Betwixt & Between Tapes described on Lost in a Sea of Sound, these transfused folk sounds hold a special place in the listening experience. Jacken takes the traditional and seamlessly blurs experimental. Melodic drone ignited with string picking, these sounds need only time and meditative space.
Seven tracks divided into six scenes, all moments reaching the pinnacle of what many describe as Americana, or some as American-primitive guitar, only on the banjo. This work explores venerated old time musicians such as Hobart Smith, Dock Boggs, Dink Roberts and singer Margaret Barry. There are also Jacken's own scenes traversing all worldly constructs. Thresholds in sound tethered only by acoustic properties.
Interesting in this selection of artists to consider, Dink Roberts lived ninety four years and has only a hand full of recorded songs. Here is a trailer for a documentary about Dink.
And another cool piece of video footage for Dock Boggs shared with some friends just a few weeks ago. He did not play music as a career for over forty year while working in the coal mines.
Jacken Elswyth creates sounds sending thoughts to both past and future. A style moving in an orbiting motion around traditional old timey and folk standards, held only with the beautiful gravity past artists have created. New influences and gorgeous creativity send Six Static Scenes into the vanguard of music yet to come.
Released by London's Cafe Oto on their new in house label titled TAKUROKU. These are lockdown releases with no physical copies. There are many to explore.... and Six Static Scenes is a choice place to start.
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