BAREFEET RECORDS

16 NOVEMBER 2009

Written by ANNABEL FENN

Bare-feet               

Hands up if you remember the Top of the Pops performance by the Cranberries where Dolores O'Riordan wailed some ghostly lament without her DMs on. Just [^]LAND then. But it was memorable because she had the cutest little ivory toes, and one can only hope that Alex Carson of Barefeet records has similarly pampered pinkies.

The anti-folk label was conceived in Norwich by David Nickerson as an antidote to struggling independent artists and bands trying to get recorded and their music released. Shortly after its conception Alex Carson, a long time believer in all things bare foot, joined Nickerson in his diabolical scheme to monopolise the music industry. Together they sit and organise gigs, parties, bonzanza's, recording sessions, E.P releases, compilation cds, box socials, and the occasional hootenanny in the Norwich area. So they’re the kind of DIY chancers that [^]LAND is soft on.

Jenny Didn't like to be Photographed's Debut 4 track EP "The Night"               

Bare-feet record has worked with Scraps, the all-innocent songsters who may be the complimentary romantic pill to Baudrillard’s Novocain-gobbling theory of post-modernism. Their sugary floral tributes lay at the grimacing mouth of the cynical Cerberus himself, Jeffery Lewis. How twee they sound, harmonizing like Steamboat Willy about a dead bunny’s intestines. Barefeet have also worked with Beth Jeans Houghton, whose Sweet Tooth Bird feels like a spooky Wonderland trip on the gallopers with Stanley Kubrick. Houghton’s mix of glam-folk is a hot-pants wearing, devious absinth fairy chanting tunes in a kaleidoscopic trance of Joanna Newsome-ish wonder and Coco Rosie wackiness.
 

Their most recent release is Jenny Didn't like to be Photographed's Debut EP: The Night. It’s a four track ambient folk masterpiece. The Night serves as a finely crafted show piece for Jenny’s superb songwriting and delicate performances. The whole EP was recorded in one day and mixed in one night in the affectionately nick-named Bare-Feet Records studio "The Cupboard."
    

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