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House and Land
12+ albums
folkcountrybluegrassUSAOld-Timey
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House and Land is the duo of Sally Anne Morgan (fiddle, shruti box, banjo, vocals) and Sarah Louise Henson (vocals, 12-string guitar, shruti box, bouzouki). Sally and Sarah started playing together after Sarah opened for The Black Twig Pickers for whom Sally plays the fiddle. The duo quickly discovered that they were both interested in the same very specific forms of traditional music. Additionally, they both viewed it through the lens of their shared love of modern, experimental and minimal music. “We honor what two voices and bodies can do in one moment in time. It totally shapes our sound.” Their playing together is wholly unmediated, without amplifiers and using just two sets of hands and voices. With a minimalist approach, their music considers the space between notes as much as the notes themselves. The material on their debut is drawn from traditional southern hymns and Appalachian ballads that originated in England and elsewhere hundreds of years ago. Microtonality is as essential to certain Appalachian vocal styles as it is to a Tony Conrad composition and the often spare adornment to their singing puts these complexities on full display. The songs, however, are not entirely unadorned. Sally and Sarah are both masters of their instruments and on several tracks they bring in percussionist Thom Nguyen, who plays with an improviser’s ear. House and Land features many drone elements, which is a direct homage to the presence of drone in Appalachian music. Equally impo
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House and Land
Across The Field
The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
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Two Sisters
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Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows
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Carolina Lady
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False True Lover
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Uncut - Frontier Sounds
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The Day is Past and Gone
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fRoots 65
House and Land Folkadelphia Session 7/23/2017
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Uncut 2019.08 Frontier Sounds - 15 Tracks Of The Month's Best New Music