| 'Music
that makes you hike up your britches and howl like a
coyote. Parkins, one of the only avant-garde harpists
around, uses both her acoustic and an electric harp complete
with wah-wah (whammy) bar to dance the tarantella on
the stuffy Harpo Marxist image her instrument has. She
is not afraid of its natural beauty and sophistication
but more often than not her hands are dirty to the elbows
in discordant tangents, Hendrix distorto-feedback, and
fierce multi-phonics... I love this, I love this, I love
this." |
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– WDC
Period |
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| "Her
style defeats categorazation, and is therefore all the
more interesting" |
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– The
New York Times |
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| "Zeena
Parkins..is my favorite living harpist...kucks of sonic gristle
that she pulls from it are dandy as jack. A truely ginchy
exploration of forgotten string potential." |
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– Spin
Magazine |
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| "Parkins
takes her celestial axe-heretofore thought of as delicate
- and gets tough, unafraid of its recourse. It's what some
listeners used to call abstract lyricism, and the way Parkins
deftly deploys her spur-of-the-moment ideas is refreshing." |
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– The New
Paper |
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