Time Takes Away, by Rusalnaia

Time Takes Away

by Rusalnaia

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jim mcdonald This is just unique, spectacular music. Favorite track: Cast A Spell.

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1.	Cast A Spell 04:45	buy track
2.	Take Me Back 02:48	buy track
3.	Driving 03:44	buy track
4.	The Love I Want 04:04	buy track
5.	The Beast 04:12	buy track
6.	The Honeymoon is Over 05:39	buy track
7.	Bright Things 03:11	buy track
8.	Lullaby (For a Future Generation) 06:32	buy track
9.	Time Takes Away 04:04	buy track

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Released on cd by Cambrian Records and Limited Edition LP by Feeding Tube Records.

“I Put A Spell on You,” Screamin’ Jay Hawkins proclaimed, but he was just fronting compared to Rusalnaia. Gillian Chadwick and Sharron Kraus launch this album with a genuine incantation, chanting words that will bring a lover close but not too close. But after you get past the moons on the record sleeve and the spell within, these witches express disarmingly ordinary concerns. They sing about love and separation, addressing the universal travails of romance but also the circumstances that put nine years between Time Takes Away and its predecessor; lines like “A thousand miles lie between the cruel time of our parting” are freighted with personal meaning when you consider that currently Chadwick lives in Philadelphia PA and Kraus in Sheffield UK.

The necessity to fly back and forth means that the LP was recorded in 2011 in Wales, mixed three years later in London, was released on CD by Cambrian Records in 2016 and on LP by Feeding Tube in 2017. But while the passage of time became the album’s theme, it seems not to have hurt it. The performances feel immediate, the arrangements neither threadbare nor overdone. The duo’s vocal chemistry is fluid, shifting between close harmony and intricately woven counterpoint. Electric guitars and a drum kit add a muscularity that differentiates record from its eponymous predecessor, which is mostly acoustic.

The songs themselves make it hard to stuff this record into any temporal cubbyhole. The briskly paced “Driving” splits the difference between Fairport Convention in 1968 and Can in 1970, but other songs contain sonic artifacts that span decades. Kraus’s recorder invests “Take Me Back” with an air of antiquity, but the boxed-in drum sounds on “The Love I Want” and “Bright Things” signal that this record was probably recorded and mixed using computers. And the lyrics shuttle between the age of dragons and the age of motorways as though there was nothing keeping them apart.

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credits

released July 15, 2016

Sharron Kraus: Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, recorders, autoharp, fiddle wails
Gillian Chadwick: Vocals, electric guitars
Mark Wilden: Drums
Ivor Davies, Moni Sheehan: Backing vocals on 'Cast A Spell'

Recorded by Michael Tanner and Sharron Kraus at the Old Vicarage, Ysbyty Cynfyn.
Mixed by Mark Wilden at Concourse Audio.
Mastered by Antony Ryan.

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Sharron Kraus Oxford, UK

Musical collaborator / songwriter / improviser.
'Pagan radiophonica meets medieval balladry’
'sensual spellcraft’
'Floating freaky fun of the highest order'
'oddly comforting avant-garde masterpiece'
Labels: Sunstone, Ghost Box, Clay Pipe, Feeding Tube, Cardinal Fuzz, Second Language ... more

discography

Birdloom

Mar 2023
K I N

Oct 2022
Swift Wings

May 2022
Welcome to Punkie Night

Oct 2021
Intermission

May 2020
Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers - second pressing

Aug 2019
Chanctonbury Rings

Jun 2019
Something Out of Nothing 7"

Sep 2018
Joy's Reflection is Sorrow

Jun 2018
Time Takes Away

Jul 2016
If You Put Out Your Hand

Apr 2016
Hen Llan Recordings

Feb 2016
Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers

May 2015
Silver Servants

Jul 2014
Winter Songs / Caneuon y Gaeaf

Nov 2013
Music and Migration III

Sep 2013
Night Mare

Aug 2013
Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails

Aug 2013
Yesterday Perhaps: Songs of the Kitchen Cynics

Jan 2013
Folk Songs II

Aug 2012
New Music for Old Instruments

Jan 2012
In the Rheidol Valley

Mar 2011
The Devil in Love: A Soundtrack to the 1772 Occult Novel

Jan 2011
The Woody Nightshade

Nov 2010
Rusalnaia Tour CD

Sep 2008
The Fox's Wedding

Mar 2008
Rusalnaia

Jan 2008
Travellers Two

Jan 2008
John Barleycorn Reborn

Aug 2007
Right Wantonly A-Mumming

Jun 2007
Singing At the Moon

Nov 2006
Leaves From Off the Tree

Oct 2006
Imaginational Anthems Volume 2

Jun 2006
The Black Dove

Mar 2006
The Honeymoon Music Compilation

May 2005
Songs for the Twins

Jan 2005
A Houseguest's Wish: Translations of Wire's Outdoor Miner

Nov 2004
Songs of Love and Loss

Mar 2004
Yuletide

Jan 2003
Beautiful Twisted

Mar 2002

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