| Faun Fables / Family Album |
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| Album: | Family Album | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Faun Fables | Added: | Mar 2004 | |
| Label: | Drag City | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-05-24 | Pull Date: | 2004-07-26 |
| Week Ending: | Aug 1 | Jul 25 | Jul 11 | Jul 4 | Jun 27 | Jun 20 | Jun 13 | Jun 6 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 28, 2010: | Buford J. Sharkley's Rodent Show Mouse Song | 4. | Sep 21, 2004: | The Literate Pop Fan A Mother and a Piano | |
| 2. | Jan 11, 2005: | All This and Mor: Best Singles of 2004 Eyes of a Bird | 5. | Sep 08, 2004: | Mr. Sparkle Challenge Still Here | |
| 3. | Jan 06, 2005: | Fiction Romance Eternal | 6. | Jul 27, 2004: | "In Your Ear..." subbing for The Bawd Eyes of a Bird |
| Album Review |
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| pat blue ribbon Reviewed 2004-05-16 | ||
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Faun Fables -- Family Album European folk/storytelling/goth -- Here's the third album from the incomparable Faun Fables from Oakland. Difficult to pidgeonhole into a particular genre -- gothic faerie tales, dark Brechtian cabaret, Eastern European woodland folk, however you categorize it, it is hypnotizing, beautiful, sweet, dark, powerful, at once simple and complex. Features Dawn the Faun's beautiful voice along with Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh) and simple instrumentation with repeated motifs.Songs focus on family themes and Dawn's mom, sister and brother even contributed to the album. A true treasure! 1. starts with kids playing, guitar + flute, hypnotic repeated rhythm, dramatic dual screaming vocals at end -- amazing! 2. simple guitar + glockenspiel, poetic mythic lyrics 3. beautiful beautiful voice + guitar, lyrics about her mother, ends with piano 4. Starts with squawking bird, Nils sings, dark folky guitar motif, lyrics about dogs and birds 5. quicker, guitar + violin + , Dawn's voice ascends, irish flute 6. seven-year old sings with muted accompaniment -- a song she wrote herself! 7. dark folk, simple guitar + drum, Nils sings, forlorn lyrics 8. dawn+guitar, pretty, samples of whales 9. starts with operatic church hymn sample, then church organ + dawn sings slow church-style hymn with out-of-tune congregational singers - great! 10. quick cabaret style -- translated from polish -- excellent! 11. slow, Nils sings dramatically, dark cabaret --great!!! 12. dark march, pots+pans, marching-drums 13. quick, goth dance number? lyrics translated from french -- "just love me for my skeleton" - 14. Nils tells story about insomniac and mouse, dawn sings traditional swiss song with flute about mouse 15. hypnotic guitar, beautiful, lyrics about kids playing, sample of kids playing at end | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Eyes of a Bird | 8. | Preview | |||
| 2. | Poem 2 | 9. | Higher | |||
| 3. | A Mother and a Piano | 10. | Carousel with Madonnas | |||
| 4. | Lucy Belle | 11. | Rising Din | |||
| 5. | Joshua | 12. | Fear March | |||
| 6. | Nop of Time | 13. | Eternal | |||
| 7. | Still Here | 14. | Mouse Song | |||
| 15. | Old and Light | |||||