The highs and lows, we take proud of that

BIOGRAPHY

Nourished on old folk songs, Appalachian Karma is the solo project of the french songwriter Pierre Souq (aka William Craw).​

Known as a singer guitarist and banjo player in Paris, he follows in American Primitivism footsteps to compose folk songs and murder ballads, evoking the american spirits he does love (ghosts, poets, animals, indians, slaves, cowboys, etc.).

His influences are Skip James, Son House, Leadbelly, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, The Sixteen Horsepower, Woven Hand, Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, etc...

Tied to history and myths, he tells the stories of characters like Anne Bonny, Abraham Lincoln, Jeremiah Johnson, Jim Crow, Saint John Baptist, The Molly Maguires, Mateo Falcone, etc..​

​Also, his songs are torn between anglo-saxon and french litterature. Some texts draw worlds from the Transcendentalist Movement (Emily Dickinson, Ralph Weldo Emerson, Robert Frost, John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, etc.), some texts borrow words from Parnassism (Charles Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Théophile Gautier, Sully Prudhomme, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, etc.).​

Third album called "Transcendentalsim" released In november 2012. 
Appalachian Karma is now working on a fourth album and original soundtracks.

Still looking for gigs and various projects. ​



DISCOGRAPHY

• The Crow & The Deadly Nightshade / First E.P.  (White Veranda – january 2007)
• The Crow & The Deadly Nightshade / Second E.P. (White Veranda – may 2008)
• The Crow & The Deadly Nightshade / Single « Stackolee » with Les Boutiques Sonores Prod. (Liberty Rock Studio / White Veranda – october 2008)
• Appalachian Karma / First L.P. (White Veranda / Fnac music / Itunes / Amazon / Believe / Deezer – january 2010)
• The Crow & The Deadly Nightshade / Compilation Rodenticide : The Best of Dark Roots Music Volume III (Devil's Ruin Records – march 2010)
• Anger / Compilation Pan! Freaksville Volume I (Freaksville Records – september 2010)
• Appalachian Karma / First E.P. (Obscure Magpie U.S. – december 2010)
• Appalachian Karma / Second L.P. (Fnac music / Itunes / Amazon / Believe / Deezer – january 2011)
• The Crow & The Deadly Nightshade / First L.P. (Double-Vinyl – october 2011)
• Appalachian Karma / Second E.P. (january 2012)
• Appalachian Karma / Third L.P. (january 2013)



CONTACT

appalachiankarma@gmail.com

Just a Programmer that wants a simple life.

A Former Cosplayer that will return someday if there's budget.
A Cook but still amateur but will make good tasting food.
A weakened Manga Artist due to Lack of Practice and finding a partner to make stories.

A snobbish yet approachable guy,or maybe shy.
Usually a Loner. Sitting on a bench alone.
Waiting for someone to talk to me.

Too Lazy to add more of this stuff. I'll end this here temporarily.

MUMU(Mix Up Mess UP) is a musical conversation event.
The only rule is using given recordings of outside noises in performances.


MESS_UP é ambiente livre para a proliferação de registros críticos, sensoriais, intelectuais e exagerados.

Um pequeno e esquecido continente anárquico e utópico, sempre em constante (des)construção.

Elaborado e gerenciado por Ghilardi – crítico ácido, um ruminante de peso. Escritor. Músico. Fotógrafo ordinário. Definitivamente carne de terceira.

We are your peas and carrots for recovery and beyond!

My DJ alias basically came out of nowhere--it started as an online alias, and kinda just stuck. I'm also known as DJ Bob Kemp, DJ Tuvok, DJ Skip Donahue, DJ Can I Borrow Your Phone Because My Battery's Dying, and a host of other names.

My roots in DJ'ing go back to my high-school years in Memphis, TN, and my military years with the 101st Airborne, where I learned the basics of hip-hop scratching and mixing, beatmaking, cratedigging and live performance. Like most DJ's my age, I can remember a world without MP3's and the internet, where all you had to go on to find the perfect break or beat was a magazine article or word of mouth--because of that, I have an appreciation for the vinyl-centric side of DJ culture, though I've just started to introduce digital elements to my sets.

Upon my arrival in the Pacific Northwest over ten years ago, I hosted a proto-podcast for about four or five years, worked with a number of artists and broadcasters and started working as a DJ in the Burning Man community. Around that time, I started an instrumental hip-hop project called the Last Days of Russell, which I still revisit from time to time.

Most recently, I founded a Facebook music group called Vinyleaters, and worked offline with some of the group's first members to organize a revolving crew of DJ's who operate under that name. To date, we've been selected to perform at a number of private and public functions throughout Seattle. I stepped down from management of the group late last year, but I continue to gig and do my own thing.

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