Ethelscull

Ethelscull is a Dark Ethereal Experimental project from Amelia Peel. The project emerged once Amelia began recording songs back in 1999 after purchasing a Fostex X-12 four track while going through a break up. Always having been influenced by music and art, in her early years she was lucky to experience such a wide variety of music styles. A huge fan of Bananarama, Cyndi Lauper and the Go Go's began the dreams of a music career (and wanting to play the drums aka b/c of Gina Schock). Being introduced to her sisters collection of punk, and metal records including Generation X, Def Leppard and Ozzy Osborne at a young age planted another music style seed all together. Reading about the D.I.Y punk ethics of Sonic Youth and other bands in music magazines back then with actual section dedicated to "underground" music in the late 80's set a pace and it was 120 Minutes on MTV that opened yet another door to a huge array of bands that are still an influence to this day. Amelia dabbled in the early 90's Riot Grrrl movement and started playing in bands with other girls from school even though none of them lasted long enough to record anything. Moving to Atlanta in the late 90's proved productive as she was now surrounded by more artists and musicians that opened up a few opportunities like singing backup vocals on Treephort's record 'Enchanted Forest' in 2004. Ethelscull has self released three cds: Thanatos in 2002, Ribbons into Hysterics in 2003 and what would become her last, Sentimentalia in 2006 on her Kittenwhip label. Kittenwhip also released an experimental music compilation titled Mood-Swing Theater Volume One which featured many experimental artist from around the globe. Ethelscull is a project that took on a life of its own when everything else fell apart. One person and her stories and it just seems better that way. Extremely personal and honest, a melding of life's influences and experiences set to the soundtrack in her head. A reflection of who Amelia Peel, the introvert, actually is.... "It was during a very bad breakup that gave me a lot of alone time when I had purchased the 4 track. I used that time to start recording music as I tried to recover. The playing was quite poor back then but i was still learning. I have always been self conscious about my singing even though I knew I could sing, so the singing is very drowned out in those early recordings, but all of the words are from my notebooks and very personal". "Kind of old-school post-rock / psych / goth / ambient / and some post-punk thrown in for good measure" - Eric.M.Place "Recording "bass guitar, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, pedals, toys, white noises, toy accordion, quiet sounds, distortion, viola, vox , feelings and guts" with her four-track, Atlanta's ethelscull (a.k.a. Amelia Peel) takes the lo-fi road to homemade experimental/ephemeratronic sounds... Find a place to yourself in the resonance of hovering plinks and slow-motion strums of the instrumental opening track. Amelia buries soft vocals within minute-long strum/drone rake. Distant wails top the muted, mesmerizing churn-and-plink expanse of persihedinfits. Livelier jangling and a mechanicalish rhythm give surreal somethings a relatively "perky" vibe. destruction's electric riffs may be time-worn, but submerging them in misty swirls of indiscernible vocals adds new shadows and lights, besides revving up the otherwise vague flows. Acoustic fingering and reverb-laden crooning give grace + favors a lilting (yet still melancholy) quality. impracticality entwines choppy chords, voicestreamers and chimier tones into finalizing strands. These nocturnal dreamscenes (20 in 41 minutes) fall into an alternarock-meets-gothereal niche. I gather that Amelia Peel isn't "like the other girls", and I mean that in the best possible way. Expressive do-it-herself collages display a definite knack for creating immersive murk/rock Ribbons Into Hysterics review from Ambientrance "Grace and Favors", the first new music since 2006 will be released on Marly Records in February 2019!!! Check out the sounds on https://marlyrecords.bandcamp.com