My Sister, Boudicca

CD Release Date: April 18th 2009 (this website)
Digital Release Date: June 29th 2009
CD Purchase from Tartaruga Shop
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The third release on Tartaruga is the debut album from Quinta.
This will be widely available as a digital download from June 29th 2009, in all major online stores, including iTunes, Amazon, and others.

It is also released as a highly limited CD which is available to buy now from this website - all orders received will be shipped the following day. This full-length album is available in the usual limited edition of 200 hand-assembled copies.

'My Sister Boudicca' is a hypnotic collection of songs and sounds that bewitches the listener from beginning to end. Utilising a vast array of instruments (and teasing sounds from a broad assortment of other objects) Quinta’s music dances through the imagination with astonishing dexterity.

From the driving piano of the opener - They Come, The Burning – the music at once ushers you in to the beguiling world that the album inhabits. The songs draw on a broad sweep of styles and genres but the resulting mix is something truly unique and individual. The gentle rise and fall of the woodwind in Two Dead Birds coaxes nostalgic reveries from the narrative lyrics, whilst the words fall further to the background in Reading To Me in which a crackling voice emerges from the bowed-saw and string atmospherics as if letting the listener in on some forgotten secret. Elsewhere, the playful lilt of Sunday’s Child gives way to the euphoric summer rush of In America, before the album comes to a close with the lingering beauty of At The Top Of Bear Hill, in which languid organ notes and lightly plucked strings evoke lazy summer days that will linger on long past the time that the last notes have faded away.

Tracklisting

01 They Come, The Burning
02 James And The Ocean
03 Two Dead Birds
04 My Sister, Boudicca
05 Reading To Me
06 The Finest Riddle
07 Supernova
08 Sunday's Child
09 In America
10 The Ballad Of The Ice Dancer
11 At The Top Of Bear Hill

Artwork / Packaging

Housed in the usual gatefold card sleeve, this release features a design by Quinta, silk-screen printed in a stunning Prussian blue and sewn together. The CD also contains a couple of exclusive hand-made inserts.

Each CD is numbered from 1-200.