SOUNDTRACK: MOUNTAIN MAN-“Sewee Sewee” (Field Recordings, February 2, 2012).
Until recently, had I posted this I would have said that Mountain Man features Amelia Meath from Sylvan Esso. Now I can say that and I can say that Mountain Man, of whom Id never heard, has a new album out. How about that.
I don’t know much about Mountain Man, but this song is quite pretty. It opens with someone snarkily commenting “Mountain Man live from the dungeon, take one.”
The song is a beautiful two-minute ballad with wonderful harmonies sand quiet acoustic guitar. But all focus is on their voices as they intertwine beautifully.
Amelia Meath is the only person I know from this band and I know of her as somewhat goofy, so it’s amazing to see her (looking so young) being very intense while she sings her parts.
The Vermont trio Mountain Man fit an awful lot of moony harmonies into this all-too-brief performance of “Sewee Sewee.” Mountain Man’s three members — Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath — sang and stared sweetly into each other’s faces.
Then as soon as the song is over Amelia gets very silly again. I assume it’s her who starts rapping Li’l Mama’s “My Lip Gloss” (“my lipgloss is popping, my lipgloss is cool”) as the camera goes dark.
This Field Recording [Mountain Man: A Choir of Angels] was the second one done at the Newport Folk Festival, and it’s clear they are having fun exploring the abandoned grounds.
As a gaggle of videographers, musicians, industry types and hangers-on stepped gingerly through tall brush to enter a dilapidated section of Fort Adams in Newport, R.I., you couldn’t blame us for feeling like unwitting participants in a horror movie. Standing amid hundred-year-old rubble as the 2011 Newport Folk Festival clattered merrily in the distance, we were either going to capture two breathtaking minutes of music or get eviscerated by maniacs as part of The Newport Witch Project. Thankfully, we made it out with the footage you see above. If the scene above once seemed destined to devolve into a grisly horror movie, at least we had a choir of angels on hand to escort us into the afterlife.
I haven’t heard their new album but I wonder if their voices still sound amazing together after 8 years apart.
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