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In the chorus to "With Words & Cake," the opening track of the enthralling new Faun Fables CD, "A Table Forgotten," Dawn McCarthy sings, "And the happy clinks of cups and plates / mean no one is alone ...

For those not familiar with the band at all, which considering they do very little work in English might be a few people, perhaps introductions are in order. Swedish born Oliver s Tyr, aside from ...

To the late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy’s famed music) in horns, tail and dappled ...

Opening with the sound of a passing train, The Transit Rider fully immerses the listener in the world created by Dawn McCarthy and Nils Freykdahl. Inspired by Dawn s introduction to the New York City ...

Any album by the Faun Fables is not for the faint of heart or the uninquisitive mind. And so it is with their latest release, Light Of A Vaster Dark, which comes out next month on the Drag City label.

Claude Debussy was tired of writing the same type of music in the 1890s. The grand Romantics -- Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Giacomo Puccini and Guiseppe Verdi -- were still the style. Debussy ...

At first blush, Dawn McCarthy seems to have been born into the wrong time. After all, the music she makes as the main force behind Faun Fables, supported at this gig by the Legendary River Drifters, ...

The only way to experience a group this vast, colorful, and earthbound is to simply just listen. An excessive use of adjectives seems unjust. Faun Fables and its creator, Dawn McCarthy, seamlessly ...

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