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01. FURSAXA - Freedom
02. FURSAXA - Purple Fantasy
03. FURSAXA - Velada
04. FURSAXA - Moonlight Sonata
05. FURSAXA - Neon Lights
06. FURSAXA - Karma
07. FURSAXA - Poppy Opera
08. FURSAXA - Russian Snow Queen
09. FURSAXA - Pyracantha
10. FURSAXA - Tyranny
11. FURSAXA - Una De Gato
ARTIST
TITLE
Lepidoptera
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ATPR 013CD ATPR 013CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/26/2005

This is the fourth full-length release from West Philly-based solo artist Tara Burke aka Fursaxa. Boasting a fan base with the likes of Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and Thurston Moore who released a record by her on his Ecstatic Peace! imprint two years ago, Fursaxa is a new signing to ATP Recordings. A previous member of the band UN, Burke is now one of the epicentres and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the Jewelled Antler Collective. With her hypnotic, echo-y churchbell chanting, Burke possesses a power-filled vocal sound that harkens back not only to those other polar queens of disaffected freakout psychedelia Nico and Barbara Manning, but she is also akin to and inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine mystical abbess. With the low drone of chord organ and Farfisa, detuned ringing guitar, and endlessly looped, multiply-tracked vocals applied with heaps of delay, Fursaxa sounds like a tripped-out medievalist perched upon a poppy petal. Burke has an alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, and then into sheer psych and back again, but more importantly, her music is pure humming narcosis.