View basket “Fairport Convention” has been added to your basket. The Gold String Devon Sproule SKU: TAR071LP Barcode: 5052442009887 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tin Angel Released Date: 24th March 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Devon Sproule’s “Gold String” is North American music with weirdo roots. Recorded in three different Canadian provinces — Yukon, Ontario, and Nova Scotia — the short, lush LP features backing from Toronto dream-poppers Bernice. The deep, sparse “Drawing Circles” is a song by Sproule’s Tin Angel labelmate Ed Askew. Two songs are co-written with Mike O’Neill (Inbreds) and mixed by Sandro Perri. Sproule’s husband Paul Curreri sings, plays, mixes, and produces. “I was staying in a tiny house all by myself, on a windy island out in the North sea. My daily human contact was waving to a farmer while he trained his 9-month-old sheepdog, Jan, for a herding competition. I had a little map of the ruins in the area, but I never really felt like it. I was gravitating toward the more modest plants and birds, considering all the people in my life. Everything seemed hyper-connected. So I postponed dinner — which is always easy because I can’t cook — & begin to write these long, long lines of lyrics. They were way less labored than usual, less chiseled into a meter. But I found that if I narrowed the melody to a few notes — almost like a chant — the ideas began to string themselves together. That song became ‘The Gold String.’ ‘More Together’ is half-about reconciliation — no doubt about it. But it’s also about the relief you feel when you stop needing to set yourself apart in the world. When we lived in Austin, we got this crazy cheap gym membership thanks to a friend’s Costco card. Sometimes on the elliptical, I’d peek at the other folks around me. We were all so sweaty, leaning forward, our music in our headphones, just working. I was surprised how happy I was to be a part of the tribe. So I wrote that into the second verse, along with an image of the sweat lodge we had at Twin Oaks when I was growing up.” Devon Sproule is a Canadian/American musician living in rural Virginia, raised on eco-villages near Kingston, Ontario and Louisa, Virginia. The 34-year-old, in addition to being a musician, is a high school drop-out, a birder, doula, and a student of Deaf Culture and sign language. She has been married to producer Paul Curreri for 11 years. “Sproule’s lyrics glance off each other arrestingly, juxtaposing images.” – Financial Times “Her quirky affectations bring to mind Bjork, and forays into the dark, Michelle Shocked.” – Village Voice Artist Devon Sproule Genre Folk Label Tin Angel Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Listen To This Make It Safe Trees At Your Mom's The Gold String Drawing Circles Jana More Together Tree Detail Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Baby Dee I Am A Stick Folk | Tin Angel | 1LP Released 1st June 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baby Dee I Am A Stick £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tin Angel SKU: TAR050LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Michael Head and The Strands The Magical World of The Strands Folk | Megaphone | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 29th July 2015 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Head and The Strands The Magical World of The Strands £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Megaphone SKU: LPMEGA24 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 29th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch LA Turnaround Folk | Earth Records | 180g, 1LP Released 10th August 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch LA Turnaround £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP026 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alela Diane About Farewell Folk | Believe Recordings | 1LP Released 26th July 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alela Diane About Farewell £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Believe Recordings SKU: BR029 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oysterband Holy Bandits Folk | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP Released 27th October 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Oysterband Holy Bandits £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP682 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kronos Quartet Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet And Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger Folk | Smithsonian Folkways | 2LP Released 9th October 2020 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kronos Quartet Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet And Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: Smithsonian Folkways SKU: SFW40240LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rab Noakes I’m Walkin’ Here Folk | Neon Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th November 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rab Noakes I’m Walkin’ Here £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Neon Records SKU: NEONLP017 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Incredible String Band No Ruinous Feud Folk | Island | 1LP Released 15th July 2022 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Incredible String Band No Ruinous Feud £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: Island SKU: nn246220 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th July 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View John Smith The Living Kind Folk | Thirty Tigers | 1LP Released 15th March 2024 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Smith The Living Kind £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Thirty Tigers SKU: COMM07LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Planxty The Woman I Loved So Well Folk | Tara | 1LP Released 7th August 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Planxty The Woman I Loved So Well £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tara SKU: 878288 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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