A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments. Here the chiming, resonant sounds of the dulcimer come the fore in an exquisite form.
Born in New York in 1935, Carter moved around finding music everywhere, monasteries in Mexico, studying at conservatories in France and London, and foundedthe Central Maine Power Music Company (CMPMC), with new-age/minimalist luminaries such as Constance Demby.
A truly great player, storyteller, historian of Celtic and Appalachian folk music, avid lifelong busker, avant-garde musician, and itinerant troubadour, she laid a framework for music that existed both within and outside of standard folk idioms. She counted musical colleagues as diverse as Constance Demby, Einstürzende Neubauten and Laraaji, as well as her lifelong artistic partner and friend Bob Rutman, whose imprint is felt throughout the grooves of this record. Reissued by Palto Flats / Putojefe Records.
To explore the rest of the album and more by Dorothy Carter, see also the other embedded links below.
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