#4949, From the Soundcheck Podcast: Cinder Well

New Sounds | Jan 16

Cinder Well is the musical project of singer and songwriter Amelia Baker, who is based in California but who fell under the spell of Irish folk music and spent time in County Clare on Ireland’s west coast. Cinder Well’s music often has a haunted, nocturnal quality – her 2020 album No Summer was widely referred to as “doom folk” - where the drone, darkness, and space may overlap with that in the metal world. Her work is also informed by traditional forms and tunes of County Clare, even as she adds haunting and meditative soundscapes to her original tunes. Her latest record, Cadence, is full of evocative, often elusive imagery and her quietly intense vocals. Cinder Well performs intimate arrangements of her songs, in-studio. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4949, From the Soundcheck Podcast: Cinder Well (First aired 11/15/2024)

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: No Summer [1:00]
RECORDING: No Summer
SOURCE: Free Dirt Records
INFO: cinderwell.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: Two Heads, Grey Mare [4:58]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast Aug. 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on 2023's Cadence

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: Returning [:34]
RECORDING: Cadence
SOURCE: Free Dirt Records
INFO: cinderwell.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: Overgrown [5:04]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast Aug. 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on 2023's Cadence

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: No Summer [3:51]
RECORDING: No Summer
SOURCE: Free Dirt Records
INFO: cinderwell.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: A Scorched Lament [6:46]
RECORDING: Cadence
SOURCE: Free Dirt Records
INFO: cinderwell.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: From Behind the Curtain [5:04]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast Aug. 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on 2020's No Summer

ARTIST: Cinder Well
WORK: Our Lady's [8:52]
RECORDING: No Summer
SOURCE: Free Dirt Records
INFO: cinderwell.bandcamp.com

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