Myrmyr - Fire Star
Under The Spire Recordings
Spire041 LP/CD
Listen to samples and order: http://underthespire.co.uk
1-3 Hot Snow (Side A)
4 Fire Serpent’s Lull (Side A)
5 Thunder Stars (Side B)
6 Golden Ashes (Side B)
This sophomore release from Agnes Szelag (Evon, Dokuro) and Marielle Jakobsons (Darwinsbitch, Date Palms) is an album of astonishing fragile beauty and darker, more foreboding atmospheres. Following their critically acclaimed debut album, The Amber Sea (Digitalis, 2009) Fire Star was recorded during a snowstorm on Shasta Mountain April 6-9 2010. The duo performs on violin, cello, voices, harps, bells, and electronics. It is recorded by The Norman Conquest and mastered by Miles Boison.
Spire041 is super limited to 200 vinyl LP and 150 CD (CD will only be available directly from the label, vinyl more widely distributed). Initial vinyl pre-orders from the label will also get a copy of the CD:
http://www.underthespire.co.uk/releases-buy/myrmyr
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Myrmyr is Agnes Szelag & Marielle Jakobsons from Oakland, California. With a foundation of violin and cello, the duo creates an intimate post-classical atmosphere inspired by folk elements of their common Eastern European ancestry. Since 2004, they have performed across the US, collaborated with dozens of musicians and filmmakers, and premiered several works for large ensembles such as sfSound & the Oakland Active Orchestra.
Their debut album was hailed as “one of the most unique and absorbing albums we’ve heard this year” by Boomkat. Myrmyr has been nationally syndicated on KQED for the show SPARK, performed at the Stone (NY), the De Young Museum (SF), as well as several national festivals, published in the Leonardo Music Journal, and received an American Composer’s Forum Grant
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