Seance (LP+Insert)

Maxine Funke

Seance (LP+Insert)

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Label: A Colourful Storm

Cat-No: ACOLOUR035

Release-Date: 30.07.2021

Last Order: 15.03.2021

Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: LP Excl

Barcode: 4251804124904

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Label: A Colourful Storm

Cat-No: ACOLOUR035

Release-Date: 30.07.2021

Last Order: 15.03.2021

Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: LP Excl

Barcode: 4251804124904

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Last in: 19.11.2021

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Maxine Funke - A1. Fairy Baby (00:00) Maxine Funke - A1. Fairy Baby (00:00)	1	Maxine Funke - A1. Fairy Baby
Maxine Funke - A2. Quiet Shore (00:00) Maxine Funke - A2. Quiet Shore (00:00)	2	Maxine Funke - A2. Quiet Shore
Maxine Funke - A3. Lucky Penny (00:00) Maxine Funke - A3. Lucky Penny (00:00)	3	Maxine Funke - A3. Lucky Penny
Maxine Funke - B1. Moody Relish (00:00) Maxine Funke - B1. Moody Relish (00:00)	4	Maxine Funke - B1. Moody Relish
Maxine Funke - B2. Anzac Day (00:00) Maxine Funke - B2. Anzac Day (00:00)	5	Maxine Funke - B2. Anzac Day
Maxine Funke - B3. Homage (00:00) Maxine Funke - B3. Homage (00:00)	6	Maxine Funke - B3. Homage
Maxine Funke - B4. Goodbye (00:00) Maxine Funke - B4. Goodbye (00:00)	7	Maxine Funke - B4. Goodbye

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Tracklist:
A1. Fairy Baby
A2. Quiet Shore
A3. Lucky Penny
B1 Moody Relish
B2 Anzac Day
B3 Homage
B4 Goodbye
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Description:
A Colourful Storm presents Seance, a new set of songs by Maxine Funke.

Following a productive recording period beginning with Silk (2018) and ending with Forest Photographer (2020), Seance marks a remarkable levitation of Funke’s tender, softly spoken songcraft first documented on Lace (2008) and Felt (2012) into new creative heights. Folksong confessionals with the burden of memory. Ghostly confines, murmurs from the cracks. Soil, blood and skin. The beauty and mundanity of the everyday.

The voice of Funke is a distinctive instrument, one which perfectly elucidates her sometimes confessional, at other times deeply inward allusions to love, loss, joy and disquiet. Lyrics grounded in observation and adventure (“Eyeballs, asphalt, grass clippings, peppercorns”) unravel into uneasy truths daubed in self-consciousness and forbidden desire (“I’m not shy / There's just a sparkle in your eye and I don't feel right”). The simplest things can be the most difficult to express.

Opener ’Fairy Baby’ and ‘Homage’ are sensuous and probing, celebrating new beginnings while cautiously closing old chapters. ‘Quiet Shore’, a seven-minute reverie of guitar strum and poetry, conjures spirits long forgotten and shines as Funke’s first solo foray into longform songwriting. A perfect accompaniment to the album’s centrepiece, ‘Lucky Penny’, a euphoric, entrancing rush foreshadowing the delicate dreamspeak still to come.

An assertive, visionary recording by one of New Zealand’s most extraordinary voices, Seance is a lover’s lament, a revealing of self and a secluded wander through fields of enchantment.