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G​ö​teborg and Oslo

by The Iditarod

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Meadows 03:07
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Winter 02:14
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Bavaria 04:00
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Moonchild 04:57
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Winter 02:31
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Children 3 03:09
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Moonchild 04:37
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Boat 04:18
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Meadows 04:34
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Julia Dream 04:06
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Mariner 03:46

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High-quality recordings of the first few days of The Iditarod's Scandinavian tour in October 2000 ! The Gothenburg show is actually my first-ever live performance in Europe. The set also includes two separate live in-studio visits to radiOrakel, Oslo's legendary feminist radio station.

“The Iditarod were very much a pioneering psychedelic folk group although for some this took the benefit of hindsight to realise as alongside the likes Stone Breath their music pre-dated the arrival of Freak Folk and mainstream breakthrough acts such as Banhart and Newsom.” (Folk Radio UK)

“Iditarod spew a magnificent gauze of lost-commune-folk-smoke-damage.” (Byron Coley in The Wire)

“Now often viewed with the benefit of hindsight as a precursor of the so-called ‘Freak Folk’ movement, they developed quite an idiosyncratic version of folk music that combined sparse song structures, spectral vocals and experimental arrangements and atmospheric sound textures…bringing to mind Shirley Collins’ work with the Albion Band or the spookier side of Cat Power and the music sounding like a slightly catatonic Pentangle one minute and The Dead C jamming on some found acoustic instruments the next." (Norman Records UK)

“From Rhode Island, the Iditarod play a minimal kind of bleak psychedelic folk that owes as much to the somnambulism of Bristol's Movietone as it does to early 70s private press semi-legends like Stone Angel or Caedmon.” (David Keenan in The Wire)

“The vintage British folk-rock-psych sound, taken into the twenty-first century by a Rhode Island group with oodles of instruments.” (Listed as #2 in Richie Unterberger's Top 10 of 2002 in Rolling Stone Magazine)

“An incredible attention to the tinyest sound and their instrumental touch "lightness" (truly unusual in these music era)…if you love avant-folk absolutely do not to miss this shy and full of light jewel.” (Blow Up, Italy)

“Simultaneously medieval and modern, the Iditarod's elusive eclecticism breeds nothing but smiles, vibes and harmony among listeners.” (Fred Mills in Magnet Magazine)

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released January 28, 2020

Carin Wagner - vocals, singing bowl, acoustic guitar on 3 + 9
Margie Wienk - cello, upright bass on 9 - 11
Jeffrey Alexander - acoustic guitar, strumstick

1 - 4 at Kulturhuset Oceanen, Göteborg, Sweden - October 4, 2000.
5 - 8 on Radio Orakel, Oslo, Norway - October 7, 2000.
9 - 11 at The Yellow House, Oslo, Norway - October 8, 2000.
12 - 15 on Radio Orakel, Oslo, Norway - October 8, 2000.

Many thanks to the DJs Julia Johnsen and Benny Braaten in Oslo, and also Peter Scion, Jerry Johansson and Camilla Wahlberg in Göteborg.

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Jeffrey Alexander Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Founding member of The Iditarod in 1996, Black Forest/Black Sea in 2003 and Dire Wolves in 2008. Joined JOMF in 2013. Started The Heavy Lidders in 2019. Former label owner of Magic Eye Singles and Secret Eye Records. Also toured with and featured on recordings by Kemialliset Ystävät, Avarus, Es, Fursaxa, Christina Carter, Gravenhurst, Jeffrey Alexander-Andrea Belfi-Stefano Pilia Trio. ... more

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