Biography
The Columbia Is Lost, aka Paul Ash, released St. Anthony's Fire in October 2008. It's the first full-length album from Paul, who wrote, performed, recorded, and produced it all, using "any instrument I could get my hands on" - which turns out to be an impressively varied selection. From electric bass, guitar, and keyboard to cello, trumpet, clarinet, charango, and a 269-year-old violin, the blend is ornately orchestral and harmonic.
Some tracks are entirely instrumental, such as the grinding, electrified takeoff track, "Light the Blue Touch Paper," and the Middle Eastern-influenced "Auto De Fe," which conjures up images of desert caravans. Those that incorporate lyrics do so with subtle chants, samples of tele convos, and softly spoken, dream-like poems. Each song seems to progress from calm to confusion to chaos and back to calm, giving the listener the feeling that an emotional voyage has been made.
Much like the effect of the poisonous ergot fungus alluded to in the album's title, St. Anthony's Fire is utterly bewitching. . . . (Shannon Holliday - Goodsound.com)
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