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Milk Tooth​/​Hull

by Greta Ruth

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cellostuff These two songs are intimate, jarring, and carefully composed. Amazing to get this amount of compositional distance with as few as two voices. Greta - please do more.
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Milk Tooth 02:10
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it's just a memory now I can take it in my hands and turn it round
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Hull 03:12
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I'm coming home with the same body on my bones bruised from things I can't recall you'd think I would have known what hurt me so but I am all alone here but I am all alone here I'm coming home with the same body on my bones

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Greta Ruth originally wrote and recorded “Milk Tooth” and “Hull” in 2013/2014, thinking of the two compositions as demos for vocal interludes for the album that eventually became The Fawn (2021). As The Fawn transformed over the near-decade it took to reach completion, the vocal songs eventually felt as though they would be better served as a stand-alone work.

Following cycles of breath, layers of voices work through stagnant, wavering, or melodic patterns while others feature simple, direct lyrical imagery of pain, loss, and letting go. Although initially planning on re-recording each track, Greta eventually opted to release the original demos, re-mixed and mastered by Jonathan Waldo, in order to preserve the raw intensity of the audio. As Greta originally improvised many of the vocal lines while recording, she felt that the spontaneity might be lost, and that in this case, vulnerability and emotion outweighed any chance of perfection.

These imperfect moments are now key features of the compositions. Intervals so close yet not spot-on that create a beating vibration, mouth sounds that bring to mind the noise of saxophone keys, and tracks that audibly stop and start create the sparse, microtonal space of these vocal pieces. Unlike any of Greta’s work to-date, “Milk Tooth” and “Hull” aim to offer the listener a cathartic experience of sound through voice alone.

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released March 4, 2022

music & lyrics by greta ruth
recorded by greta ruth
mixed & mastered by jonathan waldo

album photo by elena stanton

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Greta Ruth Minneapolis, Minnesota

poem & tone. guitar & voice. language & harmony.

song as a way to sit with, move through, & heal from experience.

softness & dissonance. reflection & dynamic stillness.

the tension of opposites & the alchemy of internal work.

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