Rusted Rail Rec.
Cubs : The Whispering Woods (IR/UK,2010)***'
Cubs is a communal project with bands and individuals from the Rusted Rail label rooted in Ireland, but recorded also in North Ireland, England and also Gambia. This sounds like a quiet mood-provoking jam of improvisations when combining different picking instruments like tenor guitar, bouzouki and such with electric guitar textures, accordion, and improvisations on mandolincello or cello besides some other additional layers of instruments like glockenspiel, with only a spare amount of recordings of spoken word contributions and only a little bit of singing. The album hangs thus moodily together and convinces perfectly like a musical concept.
The band released an EP before, this is the first full release. For this release Cubs were David Colohan, Aaron Coyne, Kevin Flanagan, Aaron Hurley, Chris Joynes, Vicky Langan, Scott mcLauglin, Paul O'Reilley, James Rider, Michael Tanner and Keith Wallace. This includes members or entire entities of the bands and projects of Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon, United Bible Studies, C Joynes, Plinth, Agitated Radio Pilot, Yawning Chasm and like the label says “other travellers on the folky-margins”. Many of these bandq have other release on the label.
