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Sun Cycles - It Cuts the Plow Reins

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jasonk Jackie and Matt make amazing music both solo and together. This is easily the finest tape they've released as a duo. Highly recommended.

Tim Six Always a pleasure to hear new sounds form McDowell couple! Excellent blend of american primitivism with raga-influenced drone contemplations, greatly melodic and transcendently static at the same time. <3 Favorite track: Effigy.

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1.	Confluence 04:48	buy track
2.	Valley 05:31	buy track
3.	Hellbender 08:41	buy track
4.	Effigy 06:51	buy track
5.	Mound 03:34	buy track
6.	Fen 03:11	buy track
7.	Ridge 04:08	buy track
8.	Dogbane 00:50	buy track

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Sun Cycles is the duo of Jackie and Matt McDowell. Borrowing from the tradition of acoustic drone music, It Cuts the Plow Reins utilizes both Indian and American influences. Shruti boxes and harmoniums blend with dulcimer and fiddle to create a new idea of Appalachia through an Eastern lens. While early proponents of acoustic drone like Lamonte Young come to mind, more recent incarnations such as Pelt and Spiral Joy Band are heard as well.

As the New York Times noted about Jackie McDowell's music - she utilizes "the meditative care of a private ceremony and the blurriness of hallucination". We couldn't agree more and we look forward to more ceremonies and hallucinations to come.

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released September 19, 2016

Acoustic improvisations recorded in May 2016 at Crickhollow.

Jackie McDowell: harmonium, fiddle, voice, percussion

Matt McDowell: guitars, harmonica, shruti, percussion

Photo by Matt McDowell.

Layout by Jason Hart.

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