Born Heller are the earthen folk duo of Josephine Foster & Jason Ajemian, and are one of the better kept secrets to emerge out of Chicago's clandestine campfires and music dens. Their sound captures an Appalachian- transatlantic folk tradition so effortlessly that if it didn't already exist, they would have had to invent it themselves. Foster's spine tingling vocal delivery has been rightly compared to the likes of British folk legend Shirley Collins. On their debut, that voice is finally given full justice by the spare rhythmic arrangements of  Ajemian on strings. - Locust Music site

From different ranges emerge Born Heller: Jason Ajemian from the Virginian Blue Ridge and Josephine Foster from the Colorado Rockies. The twain did meet in the lows of Chicago, sharing some formal and avant-garde musical histories, and joined in a retreat into the music and myths of their mountain origins. With strong preference and reverence for unamplified performance, Born Heller typically shrugs off any cloak of amplification whenever possible. Here we find a most unusual avant-folk duo whose self-penned, semi-improvised songs are skins transparent; hear the wearers' lungs and warm tears well on their recent Locust records self-titled debut. - ATP site