other vhf releases by this artist:
Caught in Unknowing CD Habitats in the Wound CD
   
   
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1. Suite of Windmill and Sycamore
2. Tropic Of Barren
3. Suite of Atoms and Media
4. Fragment of Watching
5. Suite of Houses
6. Separation of Bells and Birds

vhf#59 From Quagmire The Tropic Of Barren CD
The Tropic Of Barren is the debut release from Virginia’s From Quagmire. A trio of Dorothy Geller, James Wolf, and Rake guitarist Vincent Van Go-Gogh, FQ’s beautiful, mysterious and just plain weird art-song drift is a look into a rather under-explored corner of the underground universe. The slowly unfolding songs are based on Dorothy’s nylon string guitar and hushed-but-pointed vocals, punctuated by Wolf’s expertly sawing violin and Van Go-Gogh’s unpredictable percussion, electronics and guitar interjections. The music is highly detailed and performed with significant individual personality, rather than the predictable loud-soft-repeat bombast of other contemporary "chamber" ensembles. Geller and Wolf have done time in Camera Obscura recording artists Laconic Chamber and the Library of Congress (not a band). Van Go-Gogh is straight out of DC’s long-running freakazoid ensemble Rake. 6 Tracks, 44 Minutes. CD $9