(American Primitivism) [l. We Are Busy Bodies][WEB] Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark - 2025, FLAC (tracks), lossless

Cue Corrector v. 10.2.3 / b. 2109 (Feb. 07, 2024)
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Folder: Gwenifer Raymond - 2025 - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark (web)
Audio files:
    01. Banjo Players of Aleph One.flac [02:02.139; FLAC • 612 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 8.92 MB (9 349 860 B)]
    02. Jack Parsons Blues.flac [03:37.452; FLAC • 895 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 23.22 MB (24 349 396 B)]
    03. Champion Ivy.flac [03:46.425; FLAC • 941 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 25.41 MB (26 645 600 B)]
    04. Bliws afon tâf.flac [05:55.407; FLAC • 893 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 37.85 MB (39 692 405 B)]
    05. Bonfire of the Billionaires.flac [04:46.840; FLAC • 888 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 30.39 MB (31 863 847 B)]
    06. Dreams of Rhiannon's Birds.flac [02:32.118; FLAC • 664 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 12.05 MB (12 637 029 B)]
    07. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark.flac [06:08.354; FLAC • 740 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 32.50 MB (34 082 929 B)]
    08. Cattywomp.flac [03:31.124; FLAC • 983 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 24.74 MB (25 946 228 B)]
    09. Bleak Night in Rabbit's Wood.flac [06:22.981; FLAC • 908 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 41.46 MB (43 476 401 B)]
    10. One Day You'll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed.flac [03:19.983; FLAC • 698 kbps • 16 bit \ 44100 Hz • stereo; 16.64 MB (17 450 110 B)]
Accuracy: -m0
File 01. Banjo Players of Aleph One                               - 100% CDDA [02:02:10]
File 02. Jack Parsons Blues                                       - 100% CDDA [03:37:34]
File 03. Champion Ivy                                             - 100% CDDA [03:46:32]
File 04. Bliws afon tâf                                           - 100% CDDA [05:55:31]
File 05. Bonfire of the Billionaires                              - 100% CDDA [04:46:63]
File 06. Dreams of Rhiannon's Birds                               - 100% CDDA [02:32:09]
File 07. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark                     - 100% CDDA [06:08:27]
File 08. Cattywomp                                                - 100% CDDA [03:31:09]
File 09. Bleak Night in Rabbit's Wood                             - 100% CDDA [06:22:74]
File 10. One Day You'll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed - 100% CDDA [03:19:74]
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    Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
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Log created at October 16, 2025 12:34:09
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Cue Corrector v. 10.2.3 / b. 2109 (Feb. 07, 2024)
log date: 2025-10-16 12:32:45
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Album   : Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
Year    : 2025
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -0.80 dB   -11.95 dB      2:02 01 - Banjo Players of Aleph One / Gwenifer Raymond
DR8       -0.79 dB   -10.22 dB      3:37 02 - Jack Parsons Blues / Gwenifer Raymond
DR8       -0.77 dB    -9.78 dB      3:46 03 - Champion Ivy / Gwenifer Raymond
DR8       -0.77 dB    -9.90 dB      5:55 04 - Bliws afon tâf / Gwenifer Raymond
DR8       -0.79 dB   -10.49 dB      4:47 05 - Bonfire of the Billionaires / Gwenifer Raymond
DR10      -0.80 dB   -13.29 dB      2:32 06 - Dreams of Rhiannon's Birds / Gwenifer Raymond
DR9       -0.80 dB   -12.37 dB      6:08 07 - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark / Gwenifer Raymond
DR8       -0.79 dB    -9.83 dB      3:31 08 - Cattywomp / Gwenifer Raymond
DR9       -0.80 dB   -11.43 dB      6:23 09 - Bleak Night in Rabbit's Wood / Gwenifer Raymond
DR10      -1.12 dB   -14.05 dB      3:20 10 - One Day You'll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed / Gwenifer Raymond
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Number of tracks : 10
Official DR Value: DR9
Samplerate       : 44100 Hz
Channels         : 2
Bits per sample  : 16
Average bitrate  : 842 kbps
Codec            : FLAC
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"Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark" is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. A big bang, yes, but also an atom cleaved. On her latest album, this celebrated new champion of the finger-picked guitar looks upwards, outwards. somewhere beyond. Now the landscape is mapped – its knotted woodlands, its aurora-crowned mountains, its tangled undergrowth – Gwenifer Raymond hears the stars call.
"Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark" is a natural evolution for such an intensely questing, personally excavating artist. The album is Raymond's first since 2020's Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey's intricate Americana to embody Raymond's roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. Now, on her forthcoming album, Raymond finds herself conjuring the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Having toured Europe, the US and Canada with the likes of Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, The Handsome Family, Lankum, Charlie Parr, Richard Dawson, Ryley Walker and Squid, and played festivals including WOMAD, Green Man, End of the Road and Transmusicales in France, Raymond began recording "Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark"; exploring textures and following threads alone in her flat’s home studio, trying to get a sonic grip on a world spinning out of control.
Sci-fi and scientific readings provided a strange, objective clarity. One key reference was Tom O'Bedlam, an insane homeless mystic from Grant Morrison's comic book series The Invisibles who sees holy words in street signs reflected from the city's wet concrete, hidden meanings within the modern chaos. "The world seems to have been taking on an increasingly surrealistic tilt", Raymond says, "and ol' Tom makes more and more sense".
"I've always been a big sci-fi reader", she says, listing Phillip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury amongst the authors she read avidly as a child from her parents' extensive sci-fi collection. Raymond would go on to complete a PhD in Astrophysics at Cardiff University, before moving to Brighton to become an AI and video game programmer.
Midway through writing her third album, then, she was drawn to the pulp sci-fi corners of Brighton market, picking up and devouring second hand tomes of strange science and the mystique of eternities. "A bunch of the stuff I was reading had these themes about the nature of infinity, and tying this into concepts about the afterlife", she says. "Those thoughts were running in my mind a lot, especially when I was creating some of the droney sounds that book-end the album. The album enters from the cosmic void and exits through the galactic plane. Maybe you're exiting out of hyperdrive into some strange planet where the album lives, then you zip out to find whatever is next".