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Wild & Foolish Heart

by Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai

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Invocation 01:32
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Child 01:56
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Young Waters 05:49
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White Rabbit 04:12
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Suzanne Langille started her recording career as a vocalist alongside Loren Mazzacane Connors on a string of rare LPs in the mid-1980s acclaimed for their startling transformation of the blues. Since, Langille has added vocals and lyrics to many Connors albums, including the landmark Hell's Kitchen Park, collaborated with San Agustin and issued a conceptual full-length on Secretly Canadian in 1998. But all along a proper solo album has never surfaced -- until now.

Wild & Foolish Heart joins Langille with Indian classical musician Neel Murgai -- a long-time collaborator and leader of his own ensemble. Langille's blues-filled moans are perfectly matched to the dazzling drone and subtle melodic rhythm of Murgai's tanpura and daf (Persian frame drum). Their reworking of popular/traditional songs and Langille's own dramatic compositions draw out redemption, sorrow and celebration in a way that makes listening to these sides feel like uncovering a lost field recording of otherworldly haunts or spirituals.

Langille's pervading melancholic tone flares in the tradition of Patti Smith and Thalia Zedek at times. The LP ends with a scorching blowout from the Haunted House band, the legendary/defunct downtown 'blues rock' improv-combo fronted by Langille, with Murgai, Connors and San Agustin guitarist Andrew Burnes.

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released November 9, 2010

Vocals, Lyrics – Suzanne Langille
Tambura, Daf – Neel Murgai

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Suzanne Langille Brooklyn, New York

Suzanne Langille is known for her work with guitarist Loren
Connors and the band Haunted House. The Wire described her vocals without describing her voice. Instead, it focused on Langille’s aesthetic, how she abandons ego to “throw herself at the feet of her material and let it speak through her.” A lyricist as well as vocalist, Langille is as devoted to the spoken word as to song. ... more

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