Birth name Sar Friedman Occupation(s) Singer Labels Provenance Records Albums I and Thou | Origin Australia Years active 2015 – present Record label Provenance | |
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Website Medicine Voice on Provenance Similar APHIR, Pink Mountaintops, Oren Ambarchi, Black Mountain, Xiu Xiu |
Medicine voice aham realm of the wild woman
Medicine Voice is Sar Friedman from Sydney.
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Sar Friedman has been singing, recording and touring in various bands and experimental groups for over a decade – most notably serving time in Stephen McBean’s Black Mountain (band) offshoot Pink Mountaintops, Leopard Leg, Melodie Nelson and known also for her solo work under the name of Heartswin. Friedman recruited Oren Ambarchi and Joe Talia for her debut solo record as Medicine Voice.
Albums
Critical response
Medicine Voice was cited in The Guardian in July 2016, described as having a "cool, clear and ultra-present voice" with "mantra-like repetitions". Australian web site Happy described her debut album as "a shamanic, transcendental debut", and Brisbane independent radio station 4ZZZ noted that she was "accurately compared to Cat Power, Bat For Lashes and especially PJ Harvey" and that "a subtle menace underwrites the reverberant ambience."
Songs
Nibiru / Death of Dreams on the Holy MountainI and Thou · 2016
Heartswin at the Gate of Great Doubt / I and ItI and Thou · 2016
Aham / Realm of the Wild WomanI and Thou · 2016