Sacred Bones veröffentlichen 100 Tapes mit ausgewählten Demoversionen zu Indigo Sparkes aktuellem Album “Echo”. Die Australierin, deren Name übrigens kein Pseudonym ist, hat in den letzten Jahren immer wieder durch selbstveröffentlichte Tonträgen von sich reden gemacht, bis vor kurzem Sacred Bones auf ihre mitunter etherischen und anheimelnden und mit subtilen Brechungen versehenen Folksongs aufmerksam wurden. Die Stücke auf “Castle Demons”, an denen Charles Spearin, Gyða Valtýsdóttir und Adrianne Lenker an verschiedenen Instrumenten zu hören sind, präsentieren ihr Songwriting in einem raueren Gewand und entfalten dadurch eine fast geisterhafte Aussteahlung.
“Indigo was born in the belly of Sydney, Australia straight into the heart of a family with music in their bones. Her parents, a jazz singer and a musician, named her after the Duke Ellington song “Mood Indigo,” and her childhood was spent serenaded by a rich soundtrack of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. From a young age Indigo felt called to the stage, attending a performing arts high school, and followed it with three years in an acting school, working as an actress before embedding herself and heeding the call to the path of music.
Indigo taught herself to play guitar in her early twenties. Over the next few years, she established herself on the Australian music scene, and released her EP Night Bloom in 2016. Indigo’s career continually bloomed, opening for Big Thief on the Australian dates of their 2017/2018 tour, and then was invited to play at South by Southwest 2019. [...] Sparke began 2020 with a February Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, and had been booked as the opening act for Big Thief’s sold-out tour of Australia and New Zealand.” (Sacred Bones)