TIM ERIKSEN
Solo bio:
Tim Eriksen is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, fiddle, bajo sexto, kaval, bansuri) from Amherst, Massachusetts. “A compelling artist whose intense delivery and clarity of tone set him among the world's finest folk practitioners” (Toronto Star), “Eriksen connects the present and the ancient with an immediacy that will make your bones tremble” (Pulse of the Twin Cities). ““Widely regarded as the best traditional American ballad singer of his generation” (BBC Radio), “once you hear his voice, it is impossible to forget; its richness and intensity seem hauntingly appropriate whether he is performing New England murder ballads, Bosnian pop songs, or punk rock (East Bay Express). His scholarship on early American song has been published in Ethnomusicology and The Massachusetts Review, and his original songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Alison Krauss and Bonny “Prince” Billy.
Short description of "Absence…”
With Absence and her sister Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine return to their roots in folk minimalism and gothic Americana- new and ancient songs of their native New England informed by the wide palette of their other collaborations. The two are probably best known for their musical contributions to films including the Oscar-winning Cold Mountain and cult horror phenomenon The Outwaters, and as founding members of the anomalous folk-noise outfit Cordelia’s Dad, “the only band to have performed with both Doc Watson and Nirvana.” But while echoes of punk-folk and “shapenote” music abound on Absence and her sister, so does the dissonance and rhythmic complexity of their Bosnian band Žabe I Babe, the deep groove they picked up from collaborators like banjo master Dwight Diller and East African gospel singers the Naamaara sisters, and the love of experimentation and power of repetition celebrated in Terry Riley’s “In C,” the first piece the two ever played together as teenagers.
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