tim eriksen, cordelia’s dad and everything that’s good about music

tim eriksen is one of my favourite singers. 

forever teetering on the edge of utter obscurity and outrageous fame, to quote him. 

co-founder of cordelia’s dad with peter irvine, who manage(d) through some mad magick to combine distortoguitar and traditional music into one package so utterly wonderful i sometimes want to jam knitting needles into my earholes so i don’t ever hear anything else again.  cordelia’s dad have a bunch of albums available lots of places, but some from kimchee records (who have a tasty little catalogue).

granite mills:

so anyway cordelia’s dad in the early days sounded a bit like dinosaur jr and pete seeger with a shape note music obsession.  they slowly shed (although not really) their rock chops, concentrating on the bones and knives and old testament starkness of the folk side.  contrary buggers that they are then disappeared for a while, released a part steve albini produced plugged in record, what it is, and disappeared again.

camille’s not afraid of the barn:

and when not appearing as part of cordelia’s dad tim also does solo stuff which does not include any fuzzed up soloing but is entirely traditional/folk/acoustic/voice.  whatever these ‘words’ mean.

anyway the reason for me chuntering on like this is this video.  arguably (actually no fucking argument) the most perfect one minute and fifty four seconds of sound and video i can imagine.  it is genuinely beautiful.  i could emote lavishly, wildly with an almost sexual abandon but i would only be doing it a disservice.  watch.  buy some records.  offer encouragement to tape and tour again.  please.

tim / cordelia / kimchee / somespace / purchase