Wiggpaw - Far Fairies (excerpt)[C/F 033] by N.N.N. Cook

Wiggpaw

“Downer Lip”

C-34 Cassette
2016

Side 1
Far Fairies (9:20)
Distant Train with Compliment Percussion (2:26)
Meditation (2:39)
With Leaky Roof Percussion & Terra-cotta Pot Rotation (2:30)

Side 2
I Had a Dream I Was a Firefighter (2:52)
Lit Candle Wick (0:26)
Wash It Up (1:44)
Big Stuff (Sonnets & Meditation) (4:44)

Wiggpaw is the alter ego of Collinsville, Illinois-based artist and musician, Rick Wilson. You may know his antics in ensembles such as the mythological Skarekrauradio sect, the free/noise group Beauty Pageant, the realm-playing duo of Global Distance (with Rick Weaver) or from any number of other shapeshifting side projects he has been a part of in the last couple decades of underground music and performance art taking place in the St. Louis metropolitan area. You may not know his solo material as Wiggpaw which is full of pagan forest magic, pulsing electronics, nature field recordings, junk percussion, and warped song; a concoction that he has dubbed “fieldcore.” All the nature field recordings were captured by Wiggpaw from creeks, springs, and rivers in North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Illinois during the mornings, afternoons, and evenings throughout the last several years. Downer Lip is comprised of a pulsing nocturnal fairy tale rhapsodizing about water, a warped electronic freak-folk song about being a firefighter in a dream, late night insect song, flickering candles, and the relentless rush of glinting streams in the midday sun. Overall Downer Lip is as hermetic and tenebrist as it is bright and garish just as the weird woods of the Midwest and South are.

Pro-duplication and metallic silver Imprinting with full color double-sided J-cards.
Photographs by Wiggpaw
Design by NNN Cook
Edition of 100

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