Dorothy Carter
Waillee Waillee
Palto Flats
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2023
CD
12.99
PF012CD
8-page booklet
LP
29.99
PF012 / PJ008
12-page booklet
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Tracklist
1The Squirrel is a Funny thing
2Dulcimer Medley
3Along the River
4Summer Rhapsody
5Waillee Waillee
6Celtic Medley
7Autumn Song
8Tree of Life

Palto Flats and Putojefe Records present the first ever reissue of Dorothy Carter's 1978 folk/psych/drone masterpiece. A truly unique album in Dorothy's catalog, Waillee Waillee's essence sits in Dorothy's mastery of the dulcimer; its shimmering notes fully enmeshed with the cavernous drones of Bob Rutman's bowed steel cello. The core of this album, Dorothy's only with a full band, lies in the contradiction of traditional psych-folk idioms and the minimal avant-garde, referencing Laraaji and Henry Flynt as much as Karen Dalton.

Dorothy Carter, master of the hammered dulcimer, zither, and other instruments of the hammer chord zither/psalterium family. A true musical vagabond, Dorothy was born in New York in 1935, though her spiritual pursuit of an expansive musical knowledge would take her to monasteries in Mexico, conservatories in France and London, and the founding of the Central Maine Power Music Company (CMPMC), with new-age/minimalist luminaries such as Constance Demby and Robert Rutman.