{"id":1905,"date":"2013-12-02T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=1905"},"modified":"2020-11-25T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T02:25:31","slug":"btv072-unwed-sailor-the-white-ox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=1905","title":{"rendered":"BTV072 Unwed Sailor : The White Ox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nUnwed Sailor
\nThe White Ox (btv072)
\nBuy Online<\/a> | cd \/ 2xLP<\/a>
\nTrack listing:
\n1 Shadows
\n2 Gila
\n3 Numbers
\n4 Night Diamond
\n5 Pelican
\n6 The End<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johnathon Ford went to Bloomington, IN to work on some remixes of an out-of-print Unwed Sailor 7\u201d,\u00a0The Magic Hedge<\/em>, in the spring of 2005 with Dan Burton (Early Day Miners, Ativin). The two had previously worked together on the first Unwed Sailor full-length,\u00a0The Faithful Anchor<\/em>, and the\u00a0Stateless<\/em>\u00a0collaboration between Unwed Sailor and Burton\u2019s Early Day Miners. There were good vibes in the Burton basement studio and the remixes were quickly engulfed by the goal to finish the new full-length,\u00a0The White Ox<\/em>. Ford\u2019s bass, guitar, keyboard, and percussion parts were joined by Burton\u2018s guitars, extra bass from Phillip Blackwell (Questions in Dialect), and drummer Matt Griffin (Early Day Miners) to mix up their medicine drawing on ambient production influences from Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois (with whom Dan Burton had interned). Back in Seattle, Ford later enlisted the help of Kevin Barrans (Rosie Thomas, Damien Jurado) to add pennywhistle and accordion parts which were recorded by Josh Myers, who recorded Jeremy Enigk’s forthcoming\u00a0World Waits\u00a0<\/em>album.<\/p>\n

The White Ox<\/em>\u00a0continues on from where\u00a0The Marionette and the Music Box<\/em>\u00a0left off with “Shadows” echoing those staccato melodies, but channeling them through a dark dream of ambient effects. Here, Ford and Burton are challenging their audience, the fans who loved the upbeat melodies of\u00a0The Faithful Anchor\u00a0<\/em>and were charmed by the sweet fairy-tale aspects of\u00a0Marionette<\/em>.\u00a0The White Ox<\/em>\u00a0is brooding, washed in the night air darkness to which “Shadows” alludes. Surprisingly, for the traditionally instrumental Unwed Sailor, both “Gila” and “Numbers” feature Burton’s vocals, with Ford’s murmuring falsetto providing the haunting background for “Gila’s” almost gothic melody. Johnathon Ford grew up in Oklahoma and there are hints of Native American imagery in the album’s themes and spacious sensation and “Night Diamond’s” shimmering countermelody evoking nocturnal sounds in open country, culminating in “Pelican’s” airy, birdlike pennywhistle melodies. These music elements all connect to the cover images of both the\u00a0Circles<\/em>\u00a0ep and\u00a0The White Ox\u00a0<\/em>album. UK artist James Marsh was enlisted for the cover artwork for both. His distinct mystical images have also graced the album\u00a0covers of every one of legendary band Talk Talk\u2019s releases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unwed Sailor The White Ox (btv072) Buy Online | cd \/ 2xLP Track listing: 1 Shadows 2 Gila 3 Numbers 4 Night Diamond 5 Pelican 6 The End Johnathon Ford went to Bloomington, IN to work on some remixes of an out-of-print Unwed Sailor 7\u201d,\u00a0The Magic Hedge, in the spring of 2005 with Dan Burton (Early Day Miners, Ativin). The two had previously worked together on the first Unwed Sailor full-length,\u00a0The Faithful Anchor, and the\u00a0Stateless\u00a0collaboration between Unwed Sailor and Burton\u2019s Early Day Miners. There were good vibes in the Burton basement studio and the remixes were quickly engulfed by the goal to finish the new full-length,\u00a0The White Ox. Ford\u2019s bass, guitar, keyboard, and percussion parts were joined by Burton\u2018s guitars, extra bass from Phillip Blackwell (Questions in Dialect), and drummer Matt Griffin (Early Day Miners) to mix up their medicine drawing on ambient production influences from Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois (with whom Dan Burton had interned). Back in Seattle, Ford later enlisted the help of Kevin Barrans (Rosie Thomas, Damien Jurado) to add pennywhistle and accordion parts which were recorded by Josh Myers, who recorded Jeremy Enigk’s forthcoming\u00a0World Waits\u00a0album. The White Ox\u00a0continues on from where\u00a0The Marionette and the Music…Continue readingBTV072 Unwed Sailor : The White Ox<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1905","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1905\/revisions\/3827"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}