100 Bands in 100 Days Presented by Verity Credit Union — Day 50: Dolphin Midwives
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Music fans of the Pacific Northwest, get ready for our sixth annual year-end daily local music showcase, 100 Bands in 100 Days, where every day until December 31st, we’ll be showcasing a new band or artist you have to know about. For the fourth year in a row, the showcase is once again presented by Verity Credit Union.
Make sure you are checking the #100Bands100Days hashtag on Twitter on a daily basis to stay on top of all the bands featured and be sure to follow Verity and NW_Music_Scene on there. Some days the featured act could be an established and locally-adored northwest-based musician and other times they could be a band with a small following that just hasn’t had their deserved time in the spotlight yet. Either way, we’re fairly confident you can come away from this daily segment with plenty of new favorites. Today’s featured act is Dolphin Midwives.
About the band:
Near the beginning of 2019 we reviewed the absolutely gorgeous Liminal Garden from Dolphin Midwives, and it’s a release we’re still pretty fond of.
Here’s some of what we had to say in our review:
“Grass Grow”, the opening song on Dolphin Midwives’ breathtaking new record, Liminal Garden, is illusory. Dolphin Midwives’ Sage Fisher’s siren enchantments are ornately pacifying and shrouded in mystique. Her buoyant voice is intersected by warm electronics and looping, revealing an optimal gateway into her vast and stunning world.
Following this harmonic entry, Fisher tugs the listener into a fluttering voice-free realm where everything is in constant shifts. “Junglespell” meditates around a waterfall of harp, lulling one to be still and present, only to be engorged and burst three minutes in with Tim Hecker-like knob turning explosives and decay. Fisher masterfully returns to the faint plucking of harp by the song’s end securing a path to reprieve. “Castleshell” also arises with poetic spells of harp, but the addition and continuous subtractions of electronic processing never let the organics of her strings to dwarf the digitized scope Fisher seems desirous to unearth. “Flux” ends this round of noisy abstractions by ringing, stirring, and fluctuating as if Fisher’s life depended on it. “TEMPLE IV” wisely reshapes Liminal Garden as Fisher’s drone-like harp breeds a very concentrated pulse. Further in, her acoustic tapestries are stretched and reconfigured by mechanical trance.
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Submissions for 100 Bands in 100 Days are now closed.
A huge shoutout to Verity Credit Union for doing so much for the music community and for being such a great partner.
As an added bonus this year, House Of Cannabis will be playing the featured bands in each of their three Washington locations.