Valet
Blood is Clean CD/LP Kranky KR105
- April 6
- Blood Is Clean listen to mp3
- Burmajuana
- Tame All The Lions
- Mystic Flood
- My Volcano
- Sade 4 Bri
- North
Honey wanted to make music that was not neccessarily of her, but rather - “to be a medium channeling sounds from an unknown place, opening up and spilling out onto the computer tape.” The cryptic, mesmerizing sound pallete was inspired by “lucid dreams and physical artifacts that appeared to me daily that hinted at a sound-world of Haitian Voodoo drumming, various shamanic dreamtime musics, the Velvet Underground, and the ‘Fourth-World’ concepts of Jon Hassell”.
The songs on "Blood Is Clean" were formed out of a natural and spontaneous process as separate recordings over a five month period from January to May of 2006. They were recorded by and large in single, live takes with minor additional tracking added here and there. The results are at once spare and expansive; exploratory, yet deceptively simple.
We will just say that these are some of the most inspiring alien-psychedelic-blues-jams from the outer edge of the galaxy that we have heard in ages. And check out the absolutely fried guitar work on the title cut.