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