Shanti & Buck Curran (Arborea)
I blogged on 18th May 2011 to draw attention to Arborea’s beautiful and sensual cover of Tim Buckley’s Phantasmagoria In Two.
At that time I hadn’t fully absorbed the complete album (Red Planet) but having done so my positive first impression has proved to be well founded.
Saying what I love about such an emotionally intense record proved tougher than I imagined but today I managed to put down some thoughts for Whisperin’ & Hollerin’ which you can read here.
As I say in this review the husband and wife duo’s quiet, unhurried approach makes this an album that demands to be listened to with the same degree of care and attention to detail with which it was made.
You can get it from Strange Attractors Audio House.
Like many, I first came across the name of Dredd Foole in David Keenan’s cover feature article in the August 2003 ‘Wire’ magazine about the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival. Foole’s album ‘Quest of Tense’ was cited as a major influence on artists like Matt ‘MV’ Valentine and Sunburned Hand of the Man so helped to give birth to the New Weird America scene. 
