Come Into Our House

Nick Castro | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Strange Attractors
• ASIN: B000FKO3OO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #468,480 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

"Positively shimmers with willowy, sun-dappled ensemble playing, and firmly establishes Castro as yet another noteworthy voice of the present acid folk resurgence ." - PITCHFORKMEDIA

"A wonderfully soft-spoken and masterfully crafted folk album, ornamented with cautiously created traces of experimental passages, organic drones and Amon Düül-like communal trance." - PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE

"A ambitious record ... humbly built on the things that make great albums what they are: solid songwriting and arrangements, good lyrics, impeccable performances. It not only deserves your admiration, but a place in your CD player." - SPLENDID

West Coast psychedelic folkie Nick Castro is currently making some of most dynamic and truly original sounds to emerge from the much-ballyhooed new folk movement. As "freak-folk" and assorted hairy-fairy-type labels grab the headlines in the underground, Castro strives for purity and a solemn sort of beauty, summoning utterly melodic incantations in song and sound. Gracefully balancing sixties/seventies British Isles acid balladry and Middle Eastern traditional music with heady, pan-cultural communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. Following up 2005's lauded Further from Grace, Nick Castro unfurls his sprawling third album Come Into Our House, easily his most far-reaching and deeply molecular outing yet. Previously backed by The Poison Tree, which included Josephine Foster and members of Espers, Castro has assembled a new band of players under the moniker The Young Elders, a truly stellar cast of musicians whose combined resumes include folk and avant rock ensembles Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Damo Suzuki's Network, and Cul de Sac. Castro has found a lineup in The Young Elders that fully articulates his vast and grandiose visions, and subsequently Come Into Our House shimmers brightly in sound and scope. An East-meets-West melting pot of instrumentation - from acoustic guitars, upright bass and piano to Celtic harp, Moroccan tabla and nyabinghi drum - Come Into Our House is at once primitive and polished, elaborate yet elusive, seamlessly tying together Bert Jansch or Vashti Bunyan-style folk song, California psychedelic folk rock and Middle Eastern traditional music to a kind of organic studio musique concrete that Can forged on albums like Tago Mago. The results are astonishing and utterly psychedelic. By reaching for the sky, Castro achieves the heavens, and Come Into Our House is the evidence. A modern acid-folk masterwork.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very ......... nice....., May 25, 2007

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J. R. P. Wigman "Hans Wigman" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Come Into Our House (Audio CD)

When I first heard this cd (not having any knowledge of Nick Castro's work) I was quite taken in by the pleasing sounds, the great singing voices, the seemingly eclectic choice of instruments and directions and the unexpected lengthy wordless soundscapes. This, I assumed, is a cd with a modern and interesting take on folk.

Unfortunately, listening to it repeatedly only had the effect of lessening its first impact. On the surface there really is nothing wrong with the music, but, alas, it is not very inspiring, daring or even new. It just sounds fine. So pleasing, nice, with hints of the exotic it could be a perfect gift - to anyone. And that, to my mind, is a deadly qualification.