Sharron Kraus & Fursaxa Music Event

3 December 2011 - 8.00pm

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The China Shop is excited to be working in association with Adventures Close to Home to present a music event by Sharron Kraus and Fursaxa at The Workshop Studio on Saturday 3 December 2011, 8pm.

Sharron Kraus is a singer, musician and songwriter who both defiantly recasts and tenderly cherishes the folk traditions of England a Appalachia. Her songs tell intricate tales of rootless souls, dark secrets and earthy joys, the lyrics plucked as sonorously as her acoustic guitar. Her latest solo album, The Woody Nightshade, is her finest and most ambitious to date. The songs undulate through delicate rhythmic heartbeats, understated folk sculptures and a shattering lyrical intensity. Claustrophobia permeates the tracks, brought on by Sharron's wraithlike vocals and the glistening, taut acoustics, but there are also shining moments of serenity to ease the foreboding tension. The songs are mercury for the soul; the modern, yet timeless, wind-whipped myths will mark Sharron Kraus out as one of the most original and innovative artists in the UK today.

"The second album from Oxford's fabulous Sharron Kraus is a wonderful follow-up to the haunting debut 'Beautiful Twisted'. ... this moves from traditional fold (in a Shirley collins, Anne Briggs style) to her own songs and enchants all the way. An immaculate album from a major new singer." Rough Trade

"Kraus' gorgeously crystalline voice [is] perhaps one of the clearest, sweetest, and most lilting instruments in the current female folk canon." Fake Jazz

Fursaxa (ATP) is Philadelphia musician Tara Burke. Formerly a member of the Silbreeze band UN, Tara started her Fursaxa project in 1999 after UN disbanded. Since then Fursaxa has released six full length albums on the Acid Mothers Temple label, Ecstatic Peace, Time Lag, Eclipse, Last Visible Dog, and ATP. In addition there have been three self-released CD-Rs and a CD on her own Sylph recordings. In the summer of 2008 Fursaxa started recording her seventh full length record "Mycorrhizae Realm' at Hexham Head studio in Philadelphia, which was released in 2010. In her live sets she uses mainly layered vocals, keyboards and percussion.

"[Fursaxa's songs] don't evoke environments as much as they create sonic universes... Fursaxa's music is a zen koan, as mysteriously unsolvable as it is beautifully simple." Pitchfork

Please note: The Workshop Studio is behind The China Shop at 38 St Mary's Road, Oxford, OX4 1PY.