| In 1999 Michelle was recording, riding freight trains up to crown land in Northern Ont., and going to hear free improvised concerts. Whirl is Michelle McAdorey's first solo record following three albums and two international tours with Crash Vegas.
Michelle's voice is recorded dry and the words are names and places. Whistling bowed guitars and a piping melodica make up some of Whirl's multi-grain instrumentation generating a subtly visceral soundworld full of insidious wonders where frail, burred lyrics combine with tilted, loose guitar rattling, expressing songs that wobble and reel like lanterns.
The majority of Whirl was recorded on a farm outside of Toronto with guitarist Eric Chenaux (Phleg Camp, Life Like Weeds) and recordist John D. S. Adams, (electronics, drums). Also contributing are Glen Milchem (Blue Rodeo, The Swallows), experimental composer, Martin Arnold (Drystone Orchestra, Marmots), and Greg Keelor (Blue Rodeo).
Michelle will commence recording a new album in early 2001. |
