1 October Lanterns (3:12)
2 Blackbird Headchamber (4:13)
3 The Guttering Flame (3:19)
4 At The Tent Revival (1:20)
5 One Thousand Matchsticks (3:39)
6 Saw A Ghost On The Water (3:32)
7 The Crooked Smile Of A Jack-O-Lantern (1:29)
8 Along The Hollies (2:19)
9 Miner (3:23)
10 October Lanterns (1:07)
Premier album réalisé sous son propre nom, après sa participation aux Skygreen Leopards et l'utilisation du pseudo Verdure, grand disque de folk....
Sean Penn's Into the Wild would have been a much better movie if, for its soundtrack, Penn had replaced Eddie Vedder by Donovan Quinn. For the ten tracks on October Lanterns show just the right degree of hinterwaldlerdom without ever venturing too far off the beaten track. Sure, when Quinn recorded these fine songs in '02 and '03, he used a wide array of folk instruments. But whether hammond organ, melodica, mouth harp, or mandolin: They all blissfully sound as if the still wore the price tag of the music supply store. That, however, is not a problem at all, but provides track like At the tent revival with an awkward quality not to be found elsewhere.
Recorded at his former home studio on a horse ranch in Walnut Creek, CA, October Lanterns is Quinn's debut under his own name. He has recorded with The Skygreen Leopards and solo under the Verdure moniker. This cd-r, limited as it is to 100 copies, should help him to get established further in a field ruled by the likes of Hala Strana or Hush Arbors. There are plenty of good folk songwriter tunes out there, but Donovan Quinn's strange ability to end all the songs before they seem to even have begun, to hint at unforgettable melodies without ever fully delivering them, to allow strumming glimpses of golden indie pop songs without ever leaving the experimental field ? all of this should see Donovan Quinn become a regular fixture in the field. In fact, it's difficult to see why this is only a limited cd-r release. There's so much stuff getting a regular release that isn't half as good. Unfortunately, October Lanterns might already be pretty hard to find. It's well worth tracking down, though.
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