Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice is the name of a musical collaboration between James Jackson Toth and Jessica Toth (Wooden Wand) and The Vanishing Voice, a Brooklyn band composed of G. Lucas Crane, Heidi Diehl, and Steven Jarvis Tavaniere. The band members met at Purchase College. Their style of music draws on a variety of both conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psych folk, acid folk, freak-folk, free folk, and indie. They have also been classified under the relatively new genre of New Weird America, exemplified by a growing group of artists reviving and adapting the legacy of 1960s and '70s folk music.

The Vanishing Voice collaboration is now on indefinite hiatus, and the Toths have dissolved Wooden Wand as a musical entity.

Lineup

*Wooden Wand Jehovah aka Hassara, 27, Virgo
*Heidi Diehl aka H Reality, 15, Gemini
*Glucas Crane aka Nonhorse, age unknown, Gemini
*Steven The Harvester aka "Jarvis," 27, Sagittarius
*Satya Sai Jehovah aka Satya Sky aka Scupetty aka Alpha Woman, 18, Aquarius

Other

*DM Seidel
*Gabriel Walsh
*Pete Nolan
*Mono Ospovat

Discography

Cassettes

*"Book of FM" (Polyamory)
*"Folk Audio Tapes Vol. 1" (WWVV #1)
*"Live At Pasture" reissue (Skullfucking Tapes)
*"Michel's Portal and Crow Jane Variations" (Fuckit Tapes)
*Split with Kasvien Ystavat (Polyamory)

CD-R

*"Angel Hair" (Chocolate Monk)
*"Live At Pasture" (tour only) (23 Productions)
*"Supplication Jam for Brother Greh" 3-inch CD-R (Chondritic Sound)
*"Town on the Edge of Darkness" (Audiobot)
*"From The Road Vol. 1 - Born Free" (23 Productions)
*"From The Road Vol. 2 - The Philosophy of Fuck It" (23 Productions)
*"From The Road Vol. 3 - Dead Lecturing" (23 Productions)

Albums

*"Buck Dharma" CD/2xLP (5RC / Time-Lag)
*"L'un Marquer Contre La Moissonneuse" CD (Three Lobed Recordings)
*"Sunset Sleeves" LP (Weird Forest)
*"Xiao" LP (DeStijl)
*"Xiao" CD/LP (Troubleman Unlimited)
*"Gipsy Freedom" CD/LP (5RC)
*"The Flood" CD/LP (Troubleman)
*"James & The Quiet" CD (Ecstatic Peace!/Universal)

Compilations

*Satya Sai Baba Plays The Ring of Spells on the "Heart Liver & Lungs" compilation (???)
*"Liberty on Animal Power Magic" compilation (Nature Tape Limb)

Other & Related Releases

*"A Cut Above" featuring Wooden Wand & Satya Sai Baba Cemetery of Life CS (Polyamory)
*"The Diehls Noise at the Diehls" CD-R (WWVV #2)
*"Ego Plummet No Shoes" CD-R (virgin eye blood brothers + son of earth + wwvv) (Polyamory)
*Heidi Diehl "Old Times / Year of the Stone" VHS (Polyamory / WWVV #5)
*"Heircraft Totem" September 1-4, 2004 CS (Polyamory)
*"Night Moves" book (WWVV#6)
*"The Jones Gang High Eye: Live in Nashville" CDR (Polyamory)
*The Vanishing Voice "Nordic Visions" LP (Gipsy Phinx)
*The Vanishing Voice "Jarvis Hall" CDR (VV)
*The Vanishing Voice "Road Of Trials" CDR (VV)
*The Vanishing Voice "Vellum" one sided c50 CS (Meudiademorte)
*"Time Life" (Crane & Diehl] "Doubled Blackberry" CS (Meudiademorte)
*"Time Life" (Crane & Diehl] "Gripstone" CS (Night People)
*"Vanishing" (Crane & Diehl) s/t CS (WWVV #3)
*"Voice" (Crane & Taveniere) s/t CS(WWVV #4)
*Wooden Wand "Harem of the Sundrum" CS (Polyamory)
*Wooden Wand & Satya Sai Baba "Moray Elk Themes" 7" (Gold Soundz)
*Wooden Wand & Satya Sai Baba "Crow’s Feet Modifier" on Cottage Industrial, Vol.3 comp (Humbug)
*Wooden Wand & The Sky High Band "Second Attention" CD (Kill Rock Stars)
*Wooden Wand & Tovah "D Day Bad News Bearers" CS (Polyamory)
*Castanets/I Heart Lung 12" (Crane & Tavaniere w/Castanets) (Sounds Are Active)
*The Blood Group "Everything Forgotten Gathers At The Ceiling" (Le Grand Magistery)
*The Blood Group "Volunteers" (Le Grand Magistery)

External links

* [http://www.woodenwand.net Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/woodenwand Myspace Site]
* [http://www.5rc.com 5RC Label Site]
* [http://www.discollective.com/guest/Wooden-Wand Wooden Wand Guest List at Discollective]