marilyn mcneal

Mar 23, 2012 by Sylvie    Comments Off    Posted under: Artists - Pink Moon

My name is Marilyn McNeal and I am a San Francisco-based musician and composer who writes, records and performs original music and songs from the American old time music canon. My compositional approach varies from simple chanting and body rhythm to working with live looping and pre-recorded audio (historic speeches, field recordings, ambient sound). I am particularly inspired by rural black folk music which includes laments, ballads, work songs and spirituals.

I play piano, ukulele, wooden flute and spoons and I also make my own folk instruments out of cardboard boxes, coffee cans, cookie tins, plastic water bottles, sticks, wire and string. The instruments are influenced by early American roots music and allow me to get lost in the sound, rhythm, energy, chaos, guts and magick of American folk music.

WEBSITES

http://screamy.info/
http://millionfishes.com/

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