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Category Archives: Recorded Music
Ball of Wax 37 Songs (and pictures): Recess Monkey – “The Hermit,” Illustrated by Nathan Shields
Normally we like to write little reviews of each track as we post them leading up to the release of a new volume, but since Volume 37 is a little different, we’re going to take a different approach. For each … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Monica Schley – “In the Shadows (of Enchantment)”
Monica Schley‘s “In the Shadows (of Enchantment)” closes out Ball of Wax 36 with some sparse, roughly-recorded folk. The first minute of “In the Shadows (of Enchantment)” consists of just harp and violin. The fidelity is decidedly low – it sounds like an … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Tuktu – “1. Tupilak Creation Song 2. Tupilak Walk”
I never saw prog coming (but then again, one never does). Tuktu‘s contribution to Ball of Wax 36 is an expansive, angular song titled “1. Tupilak Creation Song 2. Tupilak Walk.” And I’m pretty sure it’s prog, though I confess … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Town Forest – “He Speak Bird”
Town Forest brings the foreboding and midnight clang with “He Speak Bird.” Driven by an eerie guitar vamp, evoking a Goblin riff played through a fuzzy Fender Twin, “He Speak Bird” stalks and hovers like some sort of rural Bauhaus or haunted My Morning … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Music for Dead Birds – “A Better View”
Astute Ball of Wax listeners might remember Jimmy Monaghan’s band Christian Bookshop from Volume 30. Listeners with long memories might remember his other band, Music for Dead Birds, from way back on Volume 12. I was excited when Jimmy appeared … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Casey Ruff – “A Broken Heart’s Immortal”
Bart recently wrote that Casey Ruff has a “unique form of charisma where when the person gets up on stage, you know it’s performance time, you know it means something,” heaping deserving praise on Ruff’s affable stage presence, equal parts Johnny … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Pufferfish – “Lean”
Seattle’s Pufferfish is well-situated in the Ball of Wax universe, counting frequent contributors (and in Levi’s case, Czar) Levi Fuller and Emiko Blalock among its members and the Foghorns, Casey Ruff, Jeremy Burk and Wesafari as past bill mates. “Lean” … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Tenderfoot – “Do It My Love”
Adam Boehmer’s Tenderfoot is another new addition to the Ball of Wax camp, though I’m surprised it’s taken this long for him to cross my radar. I really enjoy his approach both to songwriting and production; “Do It My Love” … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: The Foghorns – “Beautiful Soul”
Somehow I didn’t get a waltz or a love song from the Foghorns for Ball of Wax 34 or 35, respectively, so of course now that I have a volume with no theme at all, here comes Bart Cameron with … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Emory Liu – “Irish Goodbye”
It’s been quite some time since we’ve had a song from Emory Liu on Ball of Wax – half as long as BoW has existed, in fact. (Emory and I collaborated on Volume 18, “One Minute Singles,” for which he … Continue reading