From different ranges emerge Born Heller: Jason Ajemian from the Virginian Blue Ridge and Josephine Foster from the Colorado Rockies. The twain did meet in the lows of Chicago, sharing some formal and avant-garde musical histories, and joined in a retreat into the music and myths of their mountain origins. With strong preference and reverence for unamplified performance, Born Heller typically shrugs off any cloak of amplification whenever possible. Here we find a most unusual avant-folk duo whose self-penned, semi-improvised songs are skins transparent; hear the wearers' lungs and warm tears well on their recent Locust records self-titled debut.

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