Holley, Lonnie / Mith
| Album: | Mith | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Holley, Lonnie | Added: | Jan 2019 | |
| Label: | Jagjaguwar | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2019-02-07 | Pull Date: | 2019-04-11 |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 14 | Apr 7 | Mar 17 | Mar 10 | Feb 17 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 28, 2022: | Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Mar 12, 2019)
Coming Back (From The Distances Between The Spaces Of Time), Back For Me, I'm A Suspect |
4. | Sep 02, 2021: | Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Jul 29, 2021)
Coming Back (From The Distances Between The Spaces Of Time), Back For Me, I'm A Suspect |
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| 2. | Nov 03, 2021: | Being as an ocean (rebroadcast from Apr 11, 2019)
I'm A Suspect |
5. | Jul 29, 2021: | Magnetized Toner (rebroadcast from Mar 12, 2019)
Coming Back (From The Distances Between The Spaces Of Time), Back For Me, I'm A Suspect |
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| 3. | Oct 08, 2021: | Being as an ocean (rebroadcast from Apr 11, 2019)
I'm A Suspect |
6. | Apr 13, 2019: | Music Casserole
I Snuck Off The Slave Ship |
Album Review
DJ Away
Reviewed 2019-02-07
Reviewed 2019-02-07
This highly accomplished found object-based visual artist (born in Alabama during Jim Crow, now almost seventy) performs improvised then embellished songs based on keyboard and voice. Loose, lush, earnest, impassioned, often played in free rhythm, surreal and cosmic. Ecstatically visionary in a way that recalls Gil Scott-Heron, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, and Sun Ra alike. One of a kind. Favorites: 1, 4, 7, 9, 10. Many FCCs on 5, possible FCC on 3.
1. *(7:24)—Mellow, dulcet keys. Spaced-out horn. Some wah-wah organ too. “I’m a suspect in America.” Beautiful ending.
2. (7:00)—Bobbing, slightly jazzy piano. Whistling. Buoyant and light-hearted sax solo. Ringing finish.
3. (4:43)—FCC (maybe “dumb s***”). Meandering mid-tempo beat, shaker, wobbly bass.
4. *(17:52)—Epic, mournful narrative. Deep, slow piano and bass. Hand drums, synths. Vocals delivered like gospel testimony, painful and vivid descriptions of slavery and the slave trade. Closes with futuristic visions. Lots of glacial, atmopsheric, interlocking parts building to long, cathartic crests.
5. (5:35)—FCC (many f-bombs). Agitated and dissonant.
6. (6:47)—Bouncy, slow, off-kilter. Bird imitations?
7. *(7:50)—Almost ambient. Very slow and low synth pulses, high arpeggios and laser sounds. Cool grainy tom rolls and bells.
8. (5:26)—Relaxed jazz with water sounds and lots of multitracked vocals.
9. *(7:18)—Slow, loping, a bit dubby. Deep, grand brass.
10. *(7:02)—Happy C-major piano jam, free and loose.
1. *(7:24)—Mellow, dulcet keys. Spaced-out horn. Some wah-wah organ too. “I’m a suspect in America.” Beautiful ending.
2. (7:00)—Bobbing, slightly jazzy piano. Whistling. Buoyant and light-hearted sax solo. Ringing finish.
3. (4:43)—FCC (maybe “dumb s***”). Meandering mid-tempo beat, shaker, wobbly bass.
4. *(17:52)—Epic, mournful narrative. Deep, slow piano and bass. Hand drums, synths. Vocals delivered like gospel testimony, painful and vivid descriptions of slavery and the slave trade. Closes with futuristic visions. Lots of glacial, atmopsheric, interlocking parts building to long, cathartic crests.
5. (5:35)—FCC (many f-bombs). Agitated and dissonant.
6. (6:47)—Bouncy, slow, off-kilter. Bird imitations?
7. *(7:50)—Almost ambient. Very slow and low synth pulses, high arpeggios and laser sounds. Cool grainy tom rolls and bells.
8. (5:26)—Relaxed jazz with water sounds and lots of multitracked vocals.
9. *(7:18)—Slow, loping, a bit dubby. Deep, grand brass.
10. *(7:02)—Happy C-major piano jam, free and loose.
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