Last time MV & EE played Cambridge the performance was released on the Wabana label. So great was the night in fact, that MV thought that the air, so thick with electricity, had blanked the MD used to record the gig. Somewhere along the line, everything aligned and you can now relive the entire experience, including talk of dogs, through the release. That was at CB2 Basement, a tiny 50 capacity venue, just the 2 of them. For Palimpsest they'll be letting themselves breath and fill the air with some true free folk psychedelic wonderings with added.......
Matt "MV" Valentine, along with Erika "EE" Elder, have been constantly expanding horizons with their music as TOWER RECORDINGS, The MV & EE Medicine Show and The Bummer Road in recent years.
Together MV & EE have formulated a modern-ancient cosmic-blues universe of sound. They have a home spun industry and release (books, CD-R and other ephemerals) via their own Vermont-based Child of the Microtones imprint as well as releases on Qbico and the constantly impressive Time-Lag.
Smokey, multi-dimensional and always absorbing their mystical mixed vibes are gorgeously and righteously strung out to prized ends. Live they play the space with their distinct but constantly shifting urban-rural string meditations, percussion vibrations, raga like drifts and killer bluesy woozy wig-outs. Theirs is a music touched by inspirations from all over the globe.
Chants, shakers, guitars, bowls and bowed strings all build into harmonious trks and visions. Fascinating songs structures morph with extended improvisations on folk blues classics. Fragile but shamanic and zoned, they are a key artists operating within the burgeoning feral folk scene and constantly productive.
"MV and EE have proven able to effectively subvert the shopworn conventions of roots-based music." Pitchfork
"With Tower Recordings alums Tim Barnes and Samara Lubelski, they jam hazily on honeyed Vermont sunlight and swirling Van Gough starfields made audible..." Spin
"MV & EE have been the primary instigators and aesthetic anarchists in the American underground for some time now, and Green Blues is another kick to the solar plexus from the duo and their extended family... it's their strongest collection of songs to date." DUSTED
"...the duo crafts a sweetly amorphous yet coherent brand of psychedelia. Righteous guitar riffs phase into lazy blues figures, and the vocals sound timorous and beamed in from another dimension." Timeout New York
"...this'll put em out there with alla the Banharts/ Newsoms/ whatevers that have already claimed the popular 'free folk' crown. I mean, MV only fucking invented it. And here it is. Highest recommendation." Volcanic Tongue
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