Matt Valentine & Erica Elder
also known as MV + EE
wiki said:
MV & EE is a group of musicians focused around Matt "MV" Valentine and his partner Erika "EE" Elder. While the duo recorded under many different names, including MV & EE Medicine Show and The Bummer Road, most of the records center around both artists and feature a rotating cast of additional musicians.
Their style is self-described as "lunar ragas", with many of the lyrics dealing with celestial imagery. They combine Indian raga style composition with Appalachian folk and post-psychedelic electrical experimentalism. They use Western and Eastern acoustic instruments amplified and augmented with effects such as reverb, delay, and flange. Their compositions occasionally feature vocals, which are off-kilter and rambling.
since the late 90's the duo has been releasing extremely
limited (99 copies) cdrs of home recordings that are hand crafted
& bound with beautiful hand painted imagery along with strange inserts,
stencils, and the like, all on their own record labels:
Child of Microtones and Heroine Celestial Agriculture.
this makes actually being able to listen to their music quite hard,
you should be ever so lucky to even be able to hear most of these
rare recordings.. but hunting down these treasures on ebay & so-forth is
defiantly worth it.
it all really depends if you're looking for deep psych blues, jangly
reverb soaked acoustic goodness, eastern inspired outter space
raga celebrations, or so on and so forth, MV + EE really cover it all.
but some of my personal favorites include:
We Offer You Guru
Deep Space Circuit
Ragantula
Glorious Group Theropy
The Uranium Ray
Tonight! One Night Only! MV + EE In Heaven
for those of you who find it hard to sit & listen to their concoction
of loud raga droning instrumentals could probably find comfort
in some of their more accessible recordings:
Green Blues, Gettin' Gone, & most of the other Bummer Road records..
that mainly focus along the lines of bottle-neck slidin country blues goodness,
but of course theres always a touch of weirdness that is expected from MV + EE.
