Hurricane Clarice, by Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves

Hurricane Clarice

by Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves

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Dave Berry This music is timeless, ancient tones yet contemporary. Bravo! Favorite track: Hurricane Clarice / Brushy Fork of John’s Creek.

Faisal Jewell Mike Bravener would be Proud that Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves covered the New Brunswick Folk song, The Banks of the Miramichi. Favorite track: The Banks of the Miramichi.

Paul Stanley Again, Allison and Tatiana have put together a totally unique album. Both the fiddle and banjo make a beautiful use of a low drone string to give even more depth to the music, haunting at times. My favourite piece on first play is Nancy Blevins, perhaps because it is familiar to me, but it's a beautiful song. Favorite track: Nancy Blevins.

Dn1Zz Tatiana rocks and Allison's banjo feels warm!

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1.	The Banks of the Miramichi 03:11	buy track
2.	Wellington 03:23	buy track
3.	Nancy Blevins 03:09	buy track
4.	Each Season Changes You 03:30	buy track
5.	Hurricane Clarice / Brushy Fork of John’s Creek 06:36	buy track
6.	I Would Not Live Always 04:22	buy track
7.	Dead and Gone (Hen Cackle) 02:18	buy track
8.	Ostrich with Pearls 05:08	buy track
9.	The Road That’s Walked by Fools 02:36	buy track

about

On Hurricane Clarice stringband revolutionaries Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves infuse centuries of matrilineal folk wisdom into a soundtrack to environmental disaster. Produced by indie folk visionary Phil Cook, the duo’s energetic sophomore album features nine pieces, including two epic medleys (carefully selected from their archival deep dives) as well as a few transcendent instrumental originals. Recorded during an apocalyptic heat wave in Portland, OR, the album is a testimony to the relation of community and climate in a dying world. The Hargreaves-penned title track delves into the surreal world of Brazilian author Clarice Lespector while the Canadian ballad “The Banks of the Miramichi” references the “before times” of a polluted river used as a case study in the environmentalist classic Silent Spring. We turn inward in times of global or personal crisis, seeking the wisdom of those before us—a human instinct manifested literally on this record through the recorded voices of the duo’s grandmothers. Any artist unearthing old sounds takes traditional elements and exaggerates here or there to fit a personal aesthetic or style–there is no authentic rendition. With Hurricane Clarice, Allison and Tatiana propose a third way beyond tradition and progress. Community might just save us all.

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released March 25, 2022

Produced by Phil Cook
Recorded by Josh Powell at The Map Room in Portland, OR
Mixed by Alex Farrar
Additional production and mastering by Adam McDaniel at Drop of Sun Studios Asheville, NC
Photos by Tasha Miller
Design by Dan MacDonald Studios

We were supposed to record this album three different times throughout 2020-21. We started to work up the new material at a residency in Peninsula, Ohio in February 2020 and a year and a half later during an apocalyptic heat wave, we reunited in Portland, Oregon to record the album. Throughout the lockdown, we came up with new modes of working that didn’t involve being in the same physical place.

Our wonderful producer Phil Cook really encouraged us to be vulnerable both musically and personally with this project and to go in directions that we hadn't really thought about, including our own family histories. To help capture the energy of our live performances, he also gave us the idea of playing sets in the studio. We came up with two sets of music that we performed live in the studio each day for four days, only listening back on the final days. Playing through the sets allowed us to sync into each other's rhythms, capturing the spontaneity and energy that we love about performing live together.

This album feels like a celebration of many types of relationships, honoring our personal lineage and the family we have made within the music community. Throughout this whole process, we have felt so taken care of and loved. Thank you to Josh, Adam and Alex for your expertise and creativity, Caleb & Reeb and Maggie & Patrick for hosting us during our week of recording, and Scott de Groot, Barry Hargreaves and Donna Silver for documenting family stories. Lastly, thank you to Phil - you made this album a deeply joyful experience.

Allison plays a 5-string Romero, 5 & 6-string Seeders and a borrowed Kyle Creed from Isaac Enloe

Tatiana plays a 5-string John Sullivan fiddle and a 4-string Jonathon Cooper fiddle

Both Allison and Tatiana use D’Addario strings

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Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves Durham, North Carolina

For master musicians Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves, traditional stringband music is a way to interpret our uncertain times, to draw artistic inspiration and power from the sources of meaning in their lives.

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shows

May 31

Orpheum Theater

Flagstaff, AZ
Jun 7

The Castle Theatre

Bloomington, IL
Jul 21

Denver Botanic Gardens

Denver, CO
Jul 22

Chautauqua Auditorium

Boulder, CO

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