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Derek Piotr
Derek Piotr is a folklorist, researcher and performer whose work focuses primarily on the human voice.
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Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing
by Various Artists
Folklorist Derek Piotr pulls together mountain songs from North Carolina crossing nearly a century. Child ballads and local murder songs sit alongside dulcimer & close harmony singing.
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Ever Since We've Known It: More North Carolina Mountain Singing
by Various Artists
Folklorist Derek Piotr continues to excavate North Carolina mountain songs with a further focus on overlooked star Mrs. Lena Bare Turbyfill, of Elk Park, NC.
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Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties
by Carl Stone
supported by 4 fans who also own “East Tennessee”
The real title of this album is "Carl Stone songs you can cry to." Sonali will make you dance, I guess, but then you'll start crying again after that.
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Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker
supported by 4 fans who also own “East Tennessee”
Actually astounding and emotionally moving, creating a community that I have been proudly a part of for 2 years
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Toise Make Noys
by Uncle Woozee
This wild experimental artist from Chicago uses electric kazoos, tape loops, and more to craft far-out, wonderfully confounding songs.
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Dusk At Shadow Castle
by Drone Baron
Dark, stunning, & hypnotic, this EP defies categorization, drawing on eerie Medieval melodic structures to create fascinating music.
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