3/10/2024 0 Comments Yousane hopefully someday lyrics![]() ![]() How would you characterize your new album The Plague Garden? There are a few other dark carnival bands/musicians/projects out there and we all share a morbid sensibility, but I wouldn’t say it’s quite a movement yet, so Dust Bowl Faeries are looking for other Dark Carnival identified musicians to affiliate with, please contact us and let us know you are out there, let’s take over the world (or at least, the cemeteries). but at a certain point I realized that I needed to commit to something, so I decided to call it Dark Carnival Dream Music. Anyway, over the years I’ve called my music dark folk, gothic folk, psyche folk, etc. Ryder: I never could figure out how to label my music, and that’s because I don’t like labels! Except for maybe record labels, the good ones. Your music has been described as falling into numerous genres, including “dark carnival” music. We practiced like crazy in Dennis’ enchanted garden and the first show was a hit. Hazel and I were offered a show at one of our favorite NY Hudson Valley venues, Helsinki Hudson. I went over to my friend Dennis’ to tell him the great news and he said, “You need a band.” The next thing you know, Dennis had solicited two amazing women to play with me: Sara Ayers (keys) and Rubi LaRue (lap steel). Anyway, I was between bands performing with Hazel (our taxidermy ram/spirit animal). It was really haphazard how it came together, or maybe it was destiny. Ryder: Dust Bowl Faeries started as an all women trio in 2015. How did The Dust Bowl Faeries come to be? You all have such a unique sound and stage presence. They told me all about their group’s background, their new album The Plague Garden, what inspires them the most, and how being any gender is a drag. I got to speak with The Dust Bowl Faeries for this week’s edition of 20 Questions. ![]() It’s music that’s anchored in time yet timeless-a contradiction in theory but at the same time, an exercise in fluidity and continuity. ![]() Fascinatingly oblique while retaining all of its universal appeal, the music of The Dust Bowl Faeries escapes and embraces all genres of music. Now a multi-gendered band, they have released two EPs (2018’s The Dark Ride Mixes and 2019’s Beloved Monster) and a self-titled debut. Thomas from Thin Edge Films who documents and adds visual flair to the band’s unique and arresting visuals. Starting in 2015 as an all-woman trio, The Dust Bowl Faeries is committed to working with as many women musicians and artists as possible, including their collaborative filmmaker Lisa M. Mystical and ethereal with enough chutzpah to keep the party going and adding to the air of fantastical elements that surrounds the band, The Dust Bowl Faeries was founded by Cooley and Hazel, a disembodied taxidermy ram who has become the band’s mascot/spirit animal. “I am grateful that something creative manifested out of this dark and dormant time.”īirthed from the current COVID-19 pandemic but sourced from music that spans decades, genres and continents, the surreal and gorgeously intertwined vaudeville, cabaret, klezmer, and Eastern European music that this multi-generational five-piece presents is equal sprinklings of Gogol Bordello, David Lynch, Dresden Dolls, and Dead Can Dance. “ The Plague Garden would never have come to life in this incarnation were it not for the 2020 plague, which is not to say that I am thanking the plague for the album,” smirks Ryder Cooley, self-proclaimed “Faerie Queen” of New York-based dark carnival band The Dust Bowl Faeries. 20 Questions is a Q&A interview series with musicians, authors, and everyone in between, celebrating experiences both shared and individual in the messy game of being human. ![]()
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