Quoth the Raven

SPRING 2012:
Writing new material

THE HOOKER SONG
LUNACY
DESERT WEINER
Hunkumfortable
LEEZEANNA

SPRING 2011: Well we finished the third album An Unkindness of Ravens. It's available for preview and purchase on iTunes. Get ready for the funk, the punk, the gospel, the electronica, calypso and front-porch hillbilly. It's all good.

9 people made contributions to this recording. Steve Wagner for one set the tone of the album with the greater theme of disillusionment through hardship to a more harmonious relationship with The Universe. It's also made evident in that we begin the record with the Single Voice answering against the choir, but finishing the record with the Choir answering with the Single Voice.

Indeed, we are told to pound sand by a large group of people daily, whether it's during a car commute, or politics, or religion etc... the choir represents, on a grand scale, the "tyranny of the majority", the iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove, even at the cost of a Pyrrhic Victory.

Also, it introduces the theme of antiphony which is present in so many of
the tracks on the record, e.g. "shes blowin out my mind" on NYC, the
"pings" on Radar answered in Desert Flower, the "why not?" part of MSM, and finally the "it's time" answered by the choir in The Way Home.

Song List:
1. The Universe
2. In New York City
3. Nothing On Radar
4. The Lacquered Agenda
5. Pyrrhic Victory
6. What Is Loneliness?
7. Desert Flower
8. Farewell
9. Love So True
10. Promethean Fist
11. Badeda Batta Buddha
12. Nothing At All
13. Magical Sofa Machine
14. Banjo Man
15. The Way Home
16. Banjo Land