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From The Desk Of Marissa Nadler: Etsy Luthiers

Dreamy folkie or doom-metal goth? Party girl or paralyzed wallflower? Yes, yes, formerly and forever, says Massachusetts singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler. Debuting in 2003 with the self-released Ballads Of Living And Dying (a macabre, wintry decree by a 23-year-old ice queen, rife with literary allusions and unambiguous in title only), Nadler found herself eight years later back on her own, her crystalline hymns slightly thawed on 2011’s Marissa Nadler (the first release on her Box Of Cedar imprint) and her skin greatly thickened from a brief courtship (and briefer contractual release) by Kemado Records and offshoot Mexican Summer. Nadler’s sixth album, The Sister, is due May 29 on Box Of Cedar, and she will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all this week. Read our brand new Q&A with her.

Nadler: I spend a lot of my time every day maintaining my etsy shop. One day I stumbled across a luthier’s online shop, and realized there were quite a few guitar and instrument makers selling there work like this. I used to want to make guitars when I was younger, and I have a real soft spot for nice inlay and good woodwork. I found the shop Celentano Woodworks and some of the coolest looking instruments I have ever seen. Some of the instruments are geared best toward children because of the whimsical, cute designs of instruments shaped like animals, etc. There is basically an instrument for the whole family.

Video after the jump.