Widows

Exactly one year in the making (January to December of 2005), "Widows" marks a return to the album format for Providence RI's Lucky Dragons after a series of cd-r's, web-only releases, EP's and other unpackageable mishaps. In many senses a direct descendant of 2003's "Dark Falcon" (555 Recordings), "Widows" recalls the brittle homespun eclecticism of the first Lucky Dragons forays into the uncanny lightness of a very undigital digital music. The sixteen tracks on this long-player draw on a series of improvised group explorations (jams) -- in kitchens, bedrooms, sidewalks, gardens and forests -- and shatter into fractal rememberings of things: dulcimers, banjos, and fiddles, made up languages, splintering shifts and squeaks; cascading layers of impossible memories and warm places and future friends.