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(awakeinwhitechapel)
1. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 2 - serpentsapple
2. who's laughing now?
3. burden of genius (for p. condon)
4. walking the cow (d. johnston)
5. my blood giggles
6. a solid severance
7. can I walk you home?
8. jumping jock flesh
9. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 3 -rest
10. thinguma*qatsi
11. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 4 - waltzofdeath
12. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 1 - redlightcockfight
13. (awakeinwhitechapel) pt. 5 - lullabyforleviathan
This album has been described as not only a masterpiece, but "a masterpiece and a half". It is produced by the eminent Nicky Coghlan, and it features twelve original compositions, one cover of Daniel Johnston's "walking the cow", and liner-notes by the legendary Mike "Sport" Murphy. Original artwork by Little Myth Epiphanymph.
The liner notes for (awakeinwhitechapel) - by Sport Murphy:
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Some reviews of the album (awakeinwhitechapel):
"Beg, borrow, or steal if you have to, but just make sure to get your hands on this amazing album. 10/10",
Thinguma*jigSaw "awakeinwhitechapel"
- Foxy Digitalis
"I have to say this is one of the most original and thoroughly enjoyable folk albums I’ve heard over the last year or so, it mangers to be tuneful, macabre, playful and inventive through-out.Certainly one of the albums of the year,that I can see myself playing in years to come.",
Thinguma*jigsaw - awakeinwhitechapel [Deserted Village - 2008] - MusiqueMachine
"Med tekster om lik, syfilis og gammeltestamentiske
bilder byr de opp til nattadans med et skjelmsk flir og fordrukkent blikk",
Utvandret splatterfolk: Thinguma*jigSaw - (awakeinwhitechapel)
- ballade.no
"(awakeinwhitechapel) is one of my favourite irish albums of all time.it cannot
help but jolt the first-time listener out of their cynical distanse.
a pair of psycho Norwegians obsessed with death",
Album Swap - Analogue magazine, Ireland
"the record appears to have been made by mad children.It's a world where David Tibet and Tim Renner meet Dock Boggs in a damp cobbled lane under gaslight to drink absinthe and await the end of days."
2007 in Review (part 1)
- Dwacres
"Weird war gestern. Heute ist Splatter",
Thinguma*jigSaw - (awakeinwhitechapel) - Nonpop.de
"Onwaarschijnlijk duo, onwaarschijnlijk interessant",
Thinguma*jigSaw | (awakeinwhitechapel)
- KindaMuzik
"De donkere sinistere ondertoon van ‘Awakeinwhitechapel' heeft alles van doen met het onderwerp dat centraal staat: Jack The Ripper en de Whitechapel murders ",
Mysterieuze folk via Clear Spot
- Folkforum
Some articles on Thinguma*jigSaw:
"Their music is deeply unsettling yet strangely comforting, instrumentally spare but musically rich",
NOR-WEIRD-IAN TUNES ARE THE 'THING'"
- New York Post
"Musikken er myk og sparsommelig, tekstene fulle av død og fordervelse.",
There will be blood
- Aftenposten, Oslopuls
"Den norske duoen Thinguma*jigSaw skal denne uken til Nederland for
å spille prestisjetunge konserter"
Thinguma*jigSaw til Europa."
- Groove.no
"they have quickly become darlings of the underground scene"
Whatchamaycallitsaw - Hifipopcorn
Interviews with Thinguma*jigSaw:
"Their debut awakeinwhitechapel is one of the freshest, strange yet memorable takes on folk music your likely
to have every heard mixing together banjo, musically saw and flute."
Folk Murder & Mayhem - MusiqueMachine
"Does that make any sense? Well -does it have to? And is anything purely funny or vicious?",
Interview with Thinguma*jigSaw
- Ratatosk Online
Live-reviews of Thinguma*jigSaw:
"Dette er som å være med i en David Lynch-film",
Fascinerende splatterfolk
- puls.no
".you can stretch out just one foot away from Scandinavian duo Thinguma*JigSaw
whilst they give a mesmerising, unamplified performance on the saw, banjo and
breath-powered keyboard",
End of the Road Festival - best fest of 2008?
- Time Out, London
"Het was een memorabele verbeelding van post-erotiek",
Motel Mozaïque dwingt tot keuzes,
- NRC Handelsblad
"Alle som så Thinguma*jigSaw på Torgerstuen på Tøyen i midten av mai kan skrive under på at duoen driver med ting få om noen andre i landet er i nærheten av å matche, gjennom hva de selv har døpt splatter-folk."
Torgerstuen - Plan B
"Maar het meest intieme moment van het festival werd bereikt toen het duo met banjo en dwarsfluit midden in het publiek gingen staan",
Motel Mozaique: de eerste recensies
- Eclectro.nl
"Het leek zo lieflijk, maar dan ineens tovert zanger Seth een vrij verontrustende grijns tevoorschijn",
Thinguma*jigSaw is verontrustend en lieflijk tegelijk,
- 3voor12, VPRO
Some live video's of Thinguma*jigSaw:
"Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam"
- Fabchannel.com
Live session at "Behind Closed Doors", Rotterdam - 3voor12, VPRO
Links to other Thinguma*jigSaw webpages:
Thinguma*jigSaw on last.fm
Thinguma*jigSaw facebook group
Thinguma*jigsaw on the radio:
"inspired by old murder ballads, horror movies, musical minimalism, beautiful acoustic sounds.",
Spinning on Air, WNYC, New York
"Excentrieke psychfolk van Noors duo"
Dwars, VPRO, Amsterdam
"With their invented style, they combine elements of folk and avante garde music with horror movie sensibilities."
Hello Goodbye Show
- resonancefm.com
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This irresistible, revolutionary folk-duo will tickle your brain and nourish your heart;
Two elusive, exeptional, pivotal personalities - cunningly spinning a web of flamboyant brouhahas within the idiom of their own device: charming, clever, generous, sinister splatterfolk.
Splatterfolk combines elements of traditional Irish/British/American folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horrorfilms, experimental theatre and modernistic poetry. There is also an abundance of filmatic and popcultural references. It's the new revolution within the folk music - scene of today, and you will find no finer exponents of this subversive art than Thinguma*jigSaw. Sensual and subversive - thats us!
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