New Music: "Seraphim Moonbeam" by Free Range Folk
This past Sunday night, rootsy Jim Thorpe collective Free Range Folk made the trip down from the mountains to WXPN for a live set on The Folk Show... listen to "Seraphim Moonbeam", a very catchy and harmony-happy song from the new record.
"This is a tremendous album of country, folk, hillbilly, alt. country and classic country rock all blended into a delicious stew that has an excellent spicy edginess to it. Everything this band plays is believable and full of conviction, whether on speeded up electrified alt. country rock or mellow ballads with even the latter having a little bite to them. At times they are even a little reminiscent of country rock pioneers such as the New Riders of the Purple Sage with a little ramshackleness that is so essential to this brew but only possible in a band of the highest quality as this seven piece so obviously are."
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"....Ah...the mystery of 444. I almost forgot. Some of you musician types probably know the story. The album title, 444, is a reference to the fact that the instruments (on all tracks except Fisherman's) were tuned to A=444Hz which some musicians (Lennon and McCartney among them) theorize creates a more harmonious sound with the natural world more than the standard 440Hz tuning. Many advocates of the currently used 12-Tone Equal Temperament Method also believe that it was a deliberate act to push humanity away from vibrational harmony and further into disharmony." .... READ MORE
