Dismissing group-based music for its "grotesque banality," this experimental collective scraps together interdependent collages with rudimentary country-folk tools. Good luck trying to discern what this or that stringed instrument is--they probably made it themselves. But the Wand uncover appealingly skeletal song frames: something like Banhart at his most anarchic.
Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice is a geographically scattered band of individuals seeking to undermine the grotesque banality of group-based music by utilizing sacred tools (country, folk, blues) and applying to all an 'anything goes' ethos. But to call them 'improvisers' is redundant - the group feels that everyone improvises at least once. Better, they are a close knit group of fantasy camp survivalists. Together they solicit sympathetic bodies and minds to assist in The Great Lift Up, wringing new and spectacular bounties from the omnifaceted modern collective spirit. Plainly, this is soul music. Those who know don't say - those who say don't know.