The Tunnel Singer

You have to check this out: The Tunnel Singer
From the site:

In 1995 a friend told me about an unusual “tunnel” in Port Townsend, Washington (PT). He used words like “other worldly” and “mystical” to describe sounds uttered in an underground water catch at old Fort Worden in PT. He told me the reverberation lasted an amazing forty-five seconds before it faded completely…. I have sung and recorded in spaces with an 8-second long reverberation, but preparing to sing a space where each note lasts 45-seconds stretched my imagination. I listened to Stuart Dempster, Paul Horn and whales. I considered renting studio time to practice singing in an electronically created long reverberation. I dreamed of being underwater.

About eight months ago I was really into the idea of moving out to this same spot and trying to get a residency at the Fort Worden State park and record albums in these abandoned (and supposedly haunted) ruins. Now I see that someone has already done it - and that there is a giant “cistern” there waiting to be played inside of !!! Miss Shoemaker apparently didn’t have the upper body strength to go down into the cistern, so as far as I know it is still has not technically been played inside of (she just sang down into it).

My friend (and new roommate) Ryan and I are preparing to write up a draft so that we can get down there and play! Listen to those clips of her singing, it’s totally amazing.

By the way, I just remembered that I put up some new clips of The Datura Blues on the site, but haven’t extended any links. Ryan brought them up when he moved here, and they are the last show I played with that band back in Arcata almost two years ago. We’re currently trying to set up an orchestra all via craigslist (we’ve got electric violinists, trombone-ist, sax’s (etc) all meeting this Sunday!). These Datura Blue clips are pretty upbeat and fun compared to some of the more melacholy spacey stuff you can already find on the site under “Tribal Music”. But here, check them out too:

1. Sunset Ave.
2. Herbal Perts Psychadelic Grass Band
3. Happy Birthday
4. Follow the Green Song