Close your eyes, and listen. You've entered a cathedral -- cool tile floors, high ceilings, white marble fixtures, wooden balconies, yellow stained glass sometimes you can hear a car or motorcycle buzz by outside. Inside, every sound -- footsteps, coughing, song -- is echoed beautifully, the natural acoustics of the space allowing them to swirl around a bit before disappearing. Such is the setting for the recording of "Debridement," the second album from Rivulets. Rivulets, aka minimalist singer-songwriter...   [ read more ]

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Centered on the tense, moving, often disturbing songs of Nathan Amundson, Rivulets consists of Amundson on acoustic guitar and vocals while Jay Kroehler adds ethereal bass and effects. On this self-titled debut, Nathan is joined by LD Beghtol (Flare, The Magnetic Fields), who provides ukulele and shruti box; Mimi Parker (Low) who lends her percussion and angelic voice to "Barreling..."; and Jay Kroehler (ex-Puritan) on bass, xylophone and effect manipulation. Nathan plays guitar, toy piano, optigan, drums...   [ read more ]

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Rivulets -- Nathan Amundson's solo musical project -- is basically dusty bedroom folk music, although Amundson is an artist of the best slowcore tradition and crafts his songs with a cool and careful ambience. Of course, this might have something to do with him coming from Alaska, a land not especially renowned for its warmth, or it might have to do with his friendship with Low's Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. Sure enough, Rivulets' music echoes a bit of Low's sound; like them, Amundson is good at using a ...   [ read more ]

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