Ep.27 - Theme for an Asylum
Podcast |
The Imposter
Publisher |
CANADALAND
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Arts
Comedy
Interview
Music
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Music
Publication Date |
Feb 22, 2017
Episode Duration |
00:34:15

Folk songs from a 19th-Century asylum for women, collected by the alter ego of Simone Schmidt.

 

Simone Schmidt performs as Fiver. Her new album, Audible Songs from Rockwood, is a collection of songs based on the mid-19th century archives of the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane, complete with contextual liner notes by her ethnomusicologist alter ego, Simone Carver. The album is out April 21st.

 

Songs on this episode, all by Fiver:

"Pile Your Silver"

"Stable Song"

"Worship the Sun (Not the Golden Boy)"

"Carry on Warm"

 

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