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LOVE CONSEQUENCES AND SERENITY

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by Mikah Sykes

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    PRESS:
    Sykes, meanwhile, has been bouncing around avant-folk circles. After some time in respite, Sykes returns with a new album, Love Consequences and Serenity, recorded across the Northwest, from K Records' Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia to sessions in Portland with the Decemberists' John Moen and others. A step away from his more challenging, free-jazz muses, Sykes' latest is sunny and open armed. It's one I've been waiting for from him for some time.

    - Andrew R. Tonry (The Portland Mercury, 2011)

    Mikah Sykes' unique country, Mississippi delta, and Brazilian classical guitar fingerpicking style is a rarity that is not to be missed. This local guy has got talent beyond belief. So much so that John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame asked Sykes to record in his Los Angeles home studio (Frusciante backs up Sykes’ guitar on keyboards and guitar) after seeing him play a set in Eugene.

    - Willamette Week (Portland, Oregon)

    I don’t think the universe rewards a good deed, and I’m not even sure that love is always the answer. That said, the way Mikah Sykes’ childlike voice meets his folk-blues finger-picking and promenades around a track is pretty damn adorable, hippie-ish or not. Sykes’ tendency toward spacey experimentation is tethered by his deep love of the blues, which brings a familiarity and structure to his work that makes it feel like home. For a guy who recorded his last album in John Frusciante’s living room, he has stayed one of Portland’s better-kept secrets...But I doubt that’ll last long.

    - Willamette Week (Portland, Oregon)

    Folk dude Mikah Sykes fits somewhere between Iron and Wine and early Bright Eyes. There’s also some tremulous Sufjan Stevens instrumentation, guitar that feels a bit like Joanna Newsom’s harp, and some kiddie-ish Daniel Johnson vocals. Not to get all reference crazy up in your grill, but sometimes when the shoe fits you’ve got to go jogging and get some excersice. (I don’t know what I am talking about either.) Oz St. Fossils is straight up New Weird America old-timey. Straight-UP. This show will folk you up so good and you’ll love it.

    - The Portland Mercury (Portland, Oregon)

    From Mikah Sykes, to Mikah Sykes and the Pearly Everlasting, to the Pearly Everlasting, back to just Mikah Sykes to, now, National Forest. Though the name change has not been officially approved by the other half of the duo, Willis Ransom, Mikah shared: “I have reconnected with my old bandmate Willis; he was in Little Two’s with me and Emily Kokal from Warpaint. Anyway, my upcoming album will be a collaborative affair with him. we are going to use what i’ve recorded so far, and finish it together, plus his songs. We have 3 or 4 albums of material that is album ready as a duo; don’t know if we’ll do one at a time or a massive- mulit-disc release.” This is not the last of Hook and Line Mikah coverage…..expect some more good stuff in June *hint hint wink wink*
    On another note, Mikah was nice enough to write up a really awesome playlist for us to include in the latest issue, which is available here.

    - Keba, Hook And Line Magazine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)     ... more

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about
Some of this album was recorded in John Frusciante's home studio in Los Angeles. "Snow Softens Sound" was recorded at K Records/Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington. "For A Love My Grace" was recorded by Dave Pulliam in his home studio and features John Moen on bass and drums. "Bad Feelings" and "Shadow In The Valley" were produced and recorded by Badsector in the Electro-Bus when it was parked outside the Nightmare Collective in Forest Grove, Oregon and at least three other locations. The rest of the songs were recorded at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, Old Standard Sound in Portland, Oregon, in my bedroom, The Cartoon Bungalow, Brody Welch's apartment in Eugene, and in the field on my Sony TCS-430. "Arctic Explorer" was written by Michelle Lamanet and performed by Swimming, and originally appeared on their album "You Are Your Own."
credits
released 21 December 2012
Mikah Sykes: guitar, vox, percussion, clarinets, keys, accordion

Willis Ransom: xylophone, drums, magic

Emily Kokal: vox, guitar, organ

Jacob Wilson: guitar, percussion, vocals

Kae Ito: production, vox, guitar, arrangements

Frankie Palmer: pedal steel

John Moen: bass, drums

Bob Schwenkler: drums

Nate Lumbard: clarinet on "For A Love My Grace"

Susan Reilly: cello

Paloma Udovic: violin

Justin Higgins: percussion, whistling

Engineered by Bob Schwenkler, Grant Fairbrother, John Frusciante, Dave Pulliam, Kae Ito, Jacob Arnold, Justin Higgins, and Jacob Wilson
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tags: folk john frusciante la country blues electro-folk electrofolk electronic emily kokal finger style guitar freak folk little two's mikah sykes national guitar psych folk reso-phonic warpaint Portland
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