Party: Diane Cluck + Wounded Knee + Honey & The Herbs

Party: Diane Cluck + Wounded Knee + Honey & The Herbs

Intuitive folk heroine Diane Cluck visits us once again and we're mega pleased, we've missed her heartily. Blossoming from the same East Village coffeehouse open mic scene as CocoRosie, Kimya Dawson & Adam Green (of The Moldy Peaches), Regina Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis, TV On The Radio, My Brightest Diamond, Herman Dune, Devendra Banhart, and many others, Diane shares a sense of individualism and vibe of exploration within detail and landscape as her peers.

Her sound is very much Diane Cluck :

“Watching Cluck perform jams the senses. It’s almost easier to imagine some tiny spirit in her chest is controlling the action, turning a pitch wheel with one hand and a tone knob with the other.” -NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert

“An unlikely mix of Aaron Neville, the Baka people, and Joni Mitchell, Cluck’s singing is unaffected yet unusual.” -NPR

“Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.” -Antony Hegarty (of Antony & The Johnsons)

“Bell-clear and hotly austere, her lithe, dynamic voice hasn’t much kin. Categorizing her as folk is simplistic…(Cluck) emanates something humble but mythic. Appalachia or ancient Athens? Both hum and lilt in the unpretentious drama of her airy songs.” -Time Out New York

http://dianecluck.info/video/
http://dianecluck.info/discography/

WOUNDED KNEE : Wounded Knee is Drew Wright, a singer and experimental vocalist based in Leith, Edinburgh who has been active since 2004. Drawing from a variety of influences his music ranges from stripped down folk balladry to abstract improvised vocalic stravaigs. He is primarily a solo performer and uses an Akai Headrush 2 loop pedal or accompanies his singing with a Shruti Box. He's also been known to invite audience members to have a rummage in his ball bag or to produce his twa-string twanger . One of the best, a true sound-carrier in the folk tradition.

http://woundedknee.bandcamp.com/track/anti-fascist-reel

Honey & the Herbs :

Honey and the Herbs are Glasgow's exclusive Tropical Barbershop Prog advocates. They have been writing and performing since 2009. With several self releases under their belt and an album on its way for 2014 things are looking very exciting for the Herbs.
the band have had several line-up changes with Andrew Pattie and Adam Stearns being the only consistent members. Joined in 2012 by Rory Haye and in 2013 by Gavin Thomson, the band have never sounded so good.

http://honeyandtheherbs.bandcamp.com/releases