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1.
Prelude 01:59
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2.
Missing 03:04
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3.
Cold Blue Room 05:43
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4.
On the Chase 03:56
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5.
Glimmer 00:55
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6.
The Blackest Crow 04:32
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7.
White Shroud 02:49
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8.
Dearest 02:53
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9.
Letting Go, Holding On 02:39
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10.
A Snake and a Lion 02:41
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11.
Sinking 01:46
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12.
Mourning 04:12
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13.
The Rocks 01:33
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14.
The Black Dove 04:01
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15.
Heaven and Hell 02:05
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about

The Black Dove is a collaborative project between two like-minded artists, Christian Kiefer and Sharron Kraus. Kiefer is a Sacramento-based singer/songwriter with several acclaimed concept records exploring the history of the American West, who has collaborated with members of Low, Wilco and The Band. Kraus is an English folksinger in the tradition of Sandy Denny, Linda Thompson and Anne Briggs, a dark folk troubadour who's debut album Beautiful Twisted made Rolling Stone's Top Critics' Albums for 2002. Her most recent album on Australian label Camera Obscura, Songs of Love & Loss, further strengthened her profile as one of today's most innovative contemporary folk artists.

In creating The Black Dove, the two worked on songs and instrumentals based on the idea of love letters between two people, one the pursuer and one the pursued, one flesh and blood, the other a ghost. Kiefer's forest-bound Northern California studio was awash with mandolins, guitars, pump organ, tongue drums, and banjos. Blue jays squawked through the trees, the flies swarmed and buzzed, the wind whistled through the pine needles. The album is meant to be experienced as a sonic novel with each song or chapter referencing the text.

Originally released on CD on Tompkins Square Records.

credits

released March 7, 2006

All songs written and performed by Christian Kiefer and Sharron Kraus, except. 6, trad. arr. Kiefer/Kraus.

With
Scott Leftridge: bass on 3, 4, 12
Michael Madden: guitar on 2; piano on 11
Jason Sinclair Long: drums on 3, 4, 8, 12
Kristina Forester: cello on 2
Ron Guensche: bass on 8

Written and recorded over the course of a week in Christian's parents' basement in Colfax, California.

Engineered, produced and mixed by Christian Kiefer.

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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

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