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Song of the week: "Ee Chê" by Anna Homler and Steve Moshier
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Mar 25, 2016
Song of the week: "Ee Chê" by Anna Homler and Steve Moshier
“Ee Chê" is the first track off "Breadwoman, and Other Tales" an album and art project recorded in the early 1980s and rereleased last month.
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“Ee Chê" is the first track off "Breadwoman, and Other Tales" an album and art project recorded in the early 1980s and rereleased last month.

This week's Off-Ramp song of the week is called “Ee Chê" and it was recorded in the early 1980s by artist and singer Anna Homler and composer Steve Moshier. It's the first track off their project "Breadwoman, and Other Tales" re-released last month on RVNG International. It's a strange record with an even stranger story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kaDdFrI6n4

Homler is a visual and performance artist and was of L.A.'s Otis College of Art and Design when, driving around Malibu and Topanga, she started writing songs in an invented language. When she performed the songs, she created a new persona: "Breadwoman."

Breadwoman was an ancient cowled figure with loaves of bread where her face would be. Check out the documentary on the recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssf7fR5bfeU