DIRECTING HAND - What Put The Blood (Sealed) (LP)

Placing equal emphasis on experimental free drum and wordless vocal improvisations and reinterpretations of traditional English folk songs, "What Put The Blood" is beautiful, ugly, loud and quiet all at once. "And just as the traditional readings are illuminated by the advanced application of vanguard, modernist aesthetics, the improvisations feel intuitively authentic and deeply volk-ish. For a tradition to go on living, sometimes it is necessary to kill it off completely." (from the liner notes). Now consisting of Alex Neilson on drums and vocals and soprano Lavinia Blackwall who also plays harp, cello and harmonium.