faun fables Sept 23, 2006, SLC

Well, the faun fables show @the Urban Lounge was tremendous (as expected), only this time, we got the real deal totally stripped down: ff are back in their original form: a 2 piece consisting of just dawn & nils.

amazing what just 2 acoustic guitars + 2 powerful vocals are capable of. Nils also reached for a gretch (or was it a gibson?) for a couple tunes, but mostly it was vocals + acoustic guitars, w/dawn's lovely beseeching & at times harmonically harrowing voice striking notes that reached back in time to ring clear & true bells of childhood memories, often lilting, sometimes savage, always graceful and hot enough to get blood boiling.

Nils looking like Little Red Riding Hood & The Big Bad Wolf all rolled up into one, wore a distinctive man-dress and crooned out his resonant vocals w/a deep profundo command & theatricality.

When these 2 get going, the sparks start flying through the aether. Two songbirds elucidating fables for our pleasure from the depths of a dream realm. Marrying faded photographs from the past with bright tomorrows, electrifying the present and soothing sorrows.

They kept us riveted for an hour and forty five minutes, until 1:30 am, and I, for one, never yawned once.