Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Dixie Blood Mustache

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Hooray for Tuesday's MP3: Dixie Blood Mustache

Published Monday, July 31, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

Very little is known about the band called Dixie Blood Mustache. The bio on the usually verbose Elephant6.com only says, "Dixie Blood Mustache are a kind of female art performance troupe; Laura Carter from Elf Power and Roxanne Martin of Fablefactory are members. They've released a couple tracks on compilations." I can't really elaborate for you either. It would seem that the band is dead; I believe that Roxanne Martin is married and no longer lives in Athens, one of the reasons that there's no more Fablefactory. Laura is still involved with Elf Power and actively contributes to Elephant 6 projects in the Athens scene; she recently played drums for the Gerbils at SXSW. Dixie Blood Mustache seems to have been an extension of the Flicker Orchestra, which would play live improvised experimental music to accompany silent films; members of Flicker, including many Elephant Sixers, meet regularly in Athens to create all sorts of unique sounds to any who will come and listen. That seems to be the spirit of these recordings. Completists take note: the pieces you can download below seem to comprise the entire released output of Dixie Blood Mustache.

Mother and the Bird Machine*
Necklace of Playground and Cupcakes**
Active Ohm Tile***

* from Sounds to Soothe a Nervous Robot, 1998
** from Border Music...Flicker of a Smile - U.S. Pop Life Vol. 10: Athens Experimental, 2001
*** from Happy Happy Birthday to Me Vol. 2, 2001