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The air around the Appalachian mountains seem to be infested with forest spirits that tell you how to cook up the most simple and amazing melodies that the best producers in the world can’t come up with try as they might. Larkin Grimm, a native of Memphis, Tennessee who lived in a hippie commune till she was 7 is a real life example that comes straight from Shyamalan’s “The Village“. In her music, it’s very easy to trace the bohemian and altruistic lifestyle, the bonfires around which she danced to fiddlers and banjo players at summer nights. She is a proponent of a faux arts and crafts lifestyle but a total embodiment of this roots culture not spoilt by commercial America.

That’s why the spiritual roots and folksy tone of her music might not be for people who haven’t yet tapped into that mindset, or did so through some fashionable mag. For others who can emphatize “Parplar“, her new one on Young God will without a doubt be one of the most precious and full albums this year.

War, heartbreak, trees being cut down, seeing the world more clearly, trying to escape my ego. Making friends with humans. Hanging out with Appalachian string bands and experimental noise musicians, learning to be a human, getting to know the universe in the biblical sense, committing psychic suicide. Larkin Grimm explaining the motivation behind her music. Naturalismo interview

Previously on undomondo:
Undomondo Radio Show #22