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Wooden Shoe

by Silica Gel

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Frogs 03:03
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Alabama Song 03:17
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Fog 02:04
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Fungi 02:13
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Coming Age 07:12

about

Wooden Shoe is a playful concoction that warps folk song elements into kaleidoscopic new forms. The album spins like a cart wheel, traversing a richly varied sonic terrain, moving both forwards and backwards in time. The sounds are ancient yet futuristic….wurlitzer organ, mandolin and autoharp combine with bent circuits and digital artifacts in a song cycle that progresses like a hauntological play. On this their second album, Silica Gel deepen their exploration of art song by using elements of clapping games, round songs, hockets, vaudeville and folk balladry to fill out a thoroughly hand crafted songbook. The enchanting voices of Laura and Lauren weave harmonies around the listener like the dreamy revolution of a glowing carousel.

Cassette edition on Noumenal Loom:
noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/wooden-shoe

"The music takes many forms - raps that sound like jump rope songs, ghost folk crinkles in time, oddball Southern-fried pop in the style of Athens, Georgia's more avant practitioners, and more! It's all lovely stuff." - Byron Coley, The Wire, November 2023

“Describing Silica Gel's Wooden Shoe is like trying two place to magnets together. Words can get close but the sounds seem to move away just when a connection is near.....Silica Gel transitions with pendulum motion, each track a sweeping smooth swing in another direction. For example, "Fog" to "Steamboat Joe", the most angelic and traditional high choir piece to a jangle of strings and playful story telling ballad. The last track and the longest, "Coming Age" is the most melodic and connective to its medieval foundations. Still, Silica Gel is ready to pounce, easily turning a page to blurred futuristic sound waves.”
- Lost In A Sea of Sound

credits

released December 15, 2022

All Songs by Silica Gel

except
4: Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
5: Scottish traditional
7: poem by Carl Sandburg, melody by Roy Harris

Laura Thomas: voice, claps
Lauren Jones: voice, wurlitzer, drums, crotales, accordian
Jasper Lee: bass, drums, flute, guitar, autoharp, pyraharp
Joel Nelson: electronics, glass, mandolin, banjo, guitar

with Gary Wheat: clarinet

recorded & mixed by Jasper Lee
at Sweet Wreath 2021 & 2022
mastered by Eli Winograd

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