(RIO/Avant-Prog) 3 Mice (Elaine di Falco, Cédric Vuille, Dave Willey) - Send Me A Postcard - 2012, WavPack (iso.wv), lossless

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Israeli mixing and mastering wiz Udi Koomran had a suggestion for Swiss folky avant-prog multi-instrumentalist Cédric Vuille in 2008: go see Coloradan experimental rockers Thinking Plague when they play in Geneva -- to meet TP bassist Dave Willey and singer Elaine di Falco. Koomran realized that Vuille, Willey, and di Falco were birds of a feather, adventurous musical spirits with an anything-goes attitude but also artists who, in their own projects (notably Vuille in L'Ensemble Rayé and Willey in Hamster Theatre), made music for an audience -- melodic, tuneful, rhythmic, and lighthearted, but given substance through flirtations with darker moods and touches of atonalism, left-field effects, and oddball instrumentation. Plus, and this is an important plus, the technical acumen and pure chops necessary to realize their musical visions. Koomran stood ready to help, should they choose to work together. Vuille was intrigued, met up with Willey and di Falco at the TP gig, and a new transatlantic trio, 3 Mice, began to take root. Back in Colorado, Willey and di Falco started playing together as a duo and also, through the magic of the Internets [sic], sharing music files with Vuille across the pond. The three started working on a CD, layering in pretty much any instrument they could get their hands on (keeping to the Rayé/Hamster aesthetic, of course): cuatro, guitar, accordion, bass, piano, ukulele, nose flute, surdo, vibraphone, kalimba, zither, theremin, qarkabeb, banjolele, spoons, rhythm box, flute, Jew’s harp, mailing tubes, and more percussive implements than you could shake a stick at (including shakers). L'Ensemble Rayé drummer Daniel Spahni contributed, as did Hamster Theatre percussionist Raoul Rossiter. Koomran mixed and mastered the results, and even got in on the act with a bit of shaking and handclapping of his own. Finally, in late 2011/early 2012, the 3 Mice CD Send Me a Postcard arrived -- and to fans of these artists, it proved to be worth the wait.

Review
by Dave Lynch
Before the era of ubiquitous Internet file sharing, the prospect of these 3 Mice making an album together might have seemed unlikely. But technology has surmounted geography, and Elaine di Falco (Hughscore) and Dave Willey (Hamster Theatre) -- both based in Colorado -- worked long-distance with Switzerland's Cédric Vuille (L'Ensemble Rayé) and Israeli mixologist Udi Koomran to create Send Me a Postcard, an album that sounds like it emerged from a single studio. Given their respective projects melding avant-prog, Euro-folk, world, and classical elements to create music both amiable and challenging, Vuille and Willey are a natural pairing, as becomes clear right from the album's opening track. "Hot Rod Waltz" features Vuille on cuatro and guitar, Willey on accordion and bass, and L'Ensemble Rayé drummer Daniel Spahni. The piece is indeed centered around a waltzy 12/8 verse and chorus -- featuring Vuille's crisp picking and Willey's insistent accordion chords and sky-high melody -- alternating with a 15/8 bridge (the "Hot Rod" part?) during which, on the second go-round, Vuille's power-riffing electric guitar charges in and Willey's ascending line elevates the tune as it returns to the verse. A roaring start, to be sure, and third mouse di Falco hasn't even made her entrance. Her contributions as composer or co-composer add moody ethereality, ringing vibraphone ambience, and sometimes a bit of darkness to the proceedings. On "Invitation," co-written with Willey, her deliberate piano arpeggios mark the harmonic changes over which Vuille's twangy, swooping guitar and Willey's accordion join in mysterious melodies, accompanied by Vuille's clarinets and more Willey accordion in a counterpoint stereo throb.
Di Falco's "Year of My Solstice," again guided by her piano, has a slow waltz rhythm and tango feel, more wintry than summery as her melancholic accordion melodies are echoed by Vuille's ghostly theremin; somewhere in the mix a timbre emerges that some might feel uncannily resembles the voice of Dagmar Krause. She also provides the disc’s edgiest moment as the composer of "Experiment," which builds into a huge droning onslaught of textured sound driven by Spahni's drums and her rhythm box. Of course, di Falco does sing on Send Me a Postcard, her voice usually multi-tracked in wordless harmony as another instrument in the palette, enthusiastically tackling something light and breezy like "Hey-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay-ay-ay" in the closing "Skallaloo." And even when she sings actual words, as in her distressed rodent tale "Mr. Hamster's Dilemma," a quirkiness keeps this worlds away from earlier 2011 outings Decline and Fall by Thinking Plague and even Willey's Immeasurable Currents. Overall, in fact, Send Me a Postcard resembles a Vuille album like Faire in the brevity of its 12 tunes, forays into diverse international musical traditions -- Caribbean, Latin, and Celtic, to name three -- and head-spinning array of sparkling, multi-layered instrumentation. Di Falco's charming booklet paintings suggest a metaphor that not all items cast skyward travel far and reach hoped-for destinations. Thankfully, these 3 Mice sent musical postcards to one another that arrived as intended.

Elaine di Falco
Cédric Vuille
Dave Willey