Cat No:
LPDLR051
Release Date: 12 April 2024
Label: Dear Life Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 644110492913
Genres: Folk
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Description
To record "Ease the Work", Hour traveled via ferry with an entire studio's worth of equipment to an old off-Broadway theater on Peaks Island in Maine, months before the first tourists would show up - The week-long session started with an island-wide power outage that halted recording on the first day, and ended with twelve songs that walk steadily between longing and contentment, sentimentality and subtlety, the lift of harmony and the compulsion of a melody you wish would play forever.
Hour's music cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel's, Ease the Work shows us life on the boundary of composition and improvisation. It reaches for the sweeping gestures and inspired pacing of classic film scores, Frank Sinatra ballads, and Scott Walker's pop orchestra. It also retains the arresting intimacy of the band's early work. Strings swell and harmonize in counterpoint with electric guitar, clarinet, and piano, while drums, synth pads, and field recordings complete the aural world. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Island Time
- 2. Ease the Work
- 3. Stoner
- 4. A Good Beanpot
- 5. Brain Scrub
- 6. KC & Clem
- 1. Dying of Laughter
- 2. Hallmark
- 3. The Most Gorgeous Day in History
- 4. Often Walking
- 5. Mom Calls and You Answer
- 6. Kelly's House
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