Un-Labeled
Greenpot Bluepot : Warraw (US,2003)***°
I accidentally came to read about this release at the Other Music distribution website, heard two soundfiles and recognised something very individual and original here. There were only 100 items printed with hand made artwork, so I preferred to go for it. But I still think it is a shame such a CD didn’t get an official release yet with a wider recognition.
Greenpot Bluepot is actually a one woman project by NYC based artist Natalie LeBrecht. She gets the participation of a few other musicians now and then, but mostly this is her own multilayered and multi-talented expression.
I will try to keep the description of the music brief, because anyone can still check it out themselve. We hear large portions of spinning wheel guitars, hand-percussion, additional bass and amplified guitars, very nice vocal arrangements, with a heavenly voice and intuitively evolving semi-improvisational structures. On track 3 and 6 we hear additional trumpet by Pascale Cangiano (and cymbals by Michael Evens). All tracks seems to evolve in one another, like a musical book, varying from a beautiful kind of pleasant avant garde (track 4) to even more funny and odd multi-multilayered vocals (animals-and-toys-like pure vocalisations) (track 5) into more “normal” songs, (track 5,6,7). The vocal arrangements, with guitars, metallophone keyboards and other keyboards, trumpet sound brilliant on track 8. It’s difficult to skip any of these tracks. On various tracks an army-like "shouting" (harmonised by Natalie of course) intermediates with the other singing. Track 10 is a short trumpet solo before the last 17 minute song, accompanied by acoustic guitar, organ, synthesizer, and autoharp. This is work of true expression, true art.. Highly recommended !!
The textual concept I intended to leave for review over to L.Woolfe to be added later.
PS. A few copies of the privately release limited edition of this CD (100 made) is still available at Other Music. It comes with a beautiful handmade package.
