Hubbard is an artist completely and nakedly free... Caethua [is] in the unique pantheon of artists with a singular vision. She has created her own world, with its own symbols and magic. Yes, [her music] is that good Mike Wood for Foxy Digitalis With few resources Hubbard sculpts an aural realm distinctly and wondrously her own. Her voice is a lean trill of consistent attractiveness that delivers emotionally piercing notes at the most unexpected moments, while her guitar and piano playing extracts fresh possibilities from both instruments...Through her roaming way of life and reluctance to align with any scene, Caethua has acquired a freedom to forge her own ideas of exquisite beauty. Sean Rabin for The Australian Caethua as the ghost, guides over an existence in a grey darkness and nature, as a naturally evolving soundscape, a naturally pulsing soundtrack, sounding like industrial insects with a woohoo singing, like the dog in the house who found as if through chanelling a human voice for its expressions SingerSong Homestead Music Blog she reminded me of what a collaboration between Judee Sill and Jandek might have sounded like, playing effects-driven acoustic guitar and vocals supplemented by looping delay and tape manipulation. Very unusual, unique and captivating Arratik Music Blog Caethua builds a majestic framework of rural poetics and darkly colored orchestration that manages to cross the aesthetics of Harry Smith and This Mortal Coil. With an acoustic folk strum as anchor, Hubbards strong voice blends in and out of the chimerical atmosphere and becomes another leaden layer at times. Folk notions are subdued in an almost eerie ambience that ebbs from clanging bells and distant creaks -- Dusted Magazine Clare Hubbards voice is delicately weathered, strong and lamenting but never asking for pity. [her songs] burrow under your skin slowly until her voice twists with the icy wind in your ears and the buzzing din splashes along with tires on pavement-- Raven Sings the Blues Blogspot Her albums weave plaintive, emotionally resonant songs together with field recordings and ambient soundscapes to create vignettes of an alternate and deeply personal universe.She seems to inhabit her narrative albums as a witness herself, or they her as a sibyl. Which is not to say that her songs are the otherworldly sounds of a possessed medium -- the opposite is, in fact, the case. Her music is brought to life by the evocative realism of her lyrics and the emotional clarity that carries through her adopted voices. Raf Spielman for Foxy Digitalis SOUNDS:: Click on song titles below to listen to Caethua tunes from her album "The Long Afternoon of Earth" out now on Preservation Records. Old Cat.mp3 Daybreak.mp3 The Long Afternoon.mp3   Albums for Sale (paypal or send money to address below): Caethua LP "If the River Dries Up, I May Be Gone For A Long Long Time" Cold marriages of growing up in the snow covered cornfields of upstate New York, moldy nylon-stringed guitars, a hissing blend of flea market electronics, rusted pots and pans, field recordings of a doomed boat trip down the St. Lawrence River, birds in the ice covered trees, the groan of an overheating diesel engine, shortwave radio in the middle of nowhere. Color Vinyl. Co-released with Friends and Relatives Records. $10 Caethua Double CD Set "The Long Afternoon of Earth" newly issued on Preservation Records The first set, No Mans Land, is acoustic-based, with songs haunting in their hypnotic way, finding common ground between the rustic and spectral in the spell they cast. The second disc combines piano, guitar, raw beats and almost industrial-type textures alchemically fused for an altogether different mood more theatrical, lamenting and spooked. $16 (2 cds) Buy It Now! Caethua + Ancestral Diet Split Tape on Goaty Tapes 2 10 min.long compositions, the first Caethua's dark song-take on Artificial Intelligence made aural with organs, loon calls, and cello // the second Caethua and Andy Neubauer make sweet industrial techno love calls high in a cold atlantic-beach cedar forest. Limited #. Buy It Now from Goaty Tapes! Caethua CD "Village of the Damned" Still available through BLUESANCT Records and through Caethua herself on TOUR with her touring record store Review   Upcoming Shows:: CAETHUA on Myspace Spring Western Isolation Tour NEWS:: Ancestral Diet LP OUT NOW Brand new Caethua LP coming soon on Feeding Tube Records Brand new Caethua Tape coming soon on High Density Headache Brand new SPORTS TAPE out NOW!! Available at Caethua shows on her Spring Western Isolation Tour Questions? Comments? email saxwandrecords@yahoo.com If you prefer to mailorder instead of PayPal, please make checks or money orders out to Clare Hubbard and please include $4 for shipping (international shipping, include $11). Saxwand Records c/o Clare Hubbard po box 1631 hayfork, CA 96041