Artist: Abandoned Houses
Title: Untitled Spirals
Label / Year: Rok Lok
2013
I love how simple yet artistic the presentation of this
cassette EP is: kraft paper box, homemade insert, rubber stamp. Mike Ciaravino is
Abandoned Houses, and these songs
were recorded on lo-fi equipment in 2012 and 2013. There’s mostly paired down
acoustic guitar, it isn’t until the fourth piece “Count To Zero” (which sounds
like it features a Magnus electric chord organ like the one I played as a
child) that there might be some overdubbing involved. Straight-up folk for the
second decade of what is shaping up to be a rough century. Mike says "Obsessed
and inspired by places that are desolate, abandoned, falling apart and being
reclaimed by nature. I travel around wherever I am and write and record music
in the places I find, capturing a collective essence in recordings and
photographs. They are all unique and contribute in different ways to the music
and sounds I create." Untitled Spirals is a perfect slice of homemade indie
folk.
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