-+ the juniper meadows +-

from the broken face blog (about "pine needles & cones"):
"I am standing on a high windswept meadow looking down a steep hillside all draped in moss-clad rocks and picturesque roots. The open vista where I am provides a safe spot for observing the mystery of the gloomy forest below and that’s a bit what it feels like to listen to The Juniper Meadows’ strummed guitar, plucked banjo and ukulele, violin scrapes and wheezing melodica. The beauty shines brightly through the trees of The Juniper Meadows’ metaphorical forest but there are also times when you’re left there on your own with plenty of space between the notes, silences seemingly there to make you observe the things that not at once are visible. Things that will differ from listener to listener depending on your own mileage but the forest has never had a scary effect on me, rather the opposite. So instead of watching out for strange, indescribable creatures I find myself imagining the burbling water in a brook and birds twittering in the trees and can’t help to think of the fractured and organic listen that this Oklahoma duo reveals as another mysterious link to the Jewelled Antler collective. That’s a great compliment folks." mats gustafsson