Day 8: Sieben – Ogham inside the Night/Sex and Wildflowers 10 or so years back,I heard a track from this album, and immediately went and bought this as a double album becuase not only was the song good, but the methodology was fascinating. Matt Howden, the performer of “Sieben”, plays the violin, and a bunch of loopers and effects pedals. Sieben is about live performance, and seriously, he makes it all happen real time. Basically, he builds his songs by stacking musical phrases on top of each other, and performing other manipulations of those passages along the way. The approach is fascinating, but his songwriting is unbelievable. Each of the Sieben albums is written around a unifying theme, and he’s one of those rare musicians whose lyrics often stand up as poetry on their own. He’s amazing to watch perform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKRKqCV1QfA