Leírás
Alternative, Folk, Experimental,
Limited edition FEKETE színű dupla bakelit lemez kiadvány, 2025-ös album.
The work of Lonnie Holley is, for me, a work of this kind of accumulation and close attention. The delight of finding a sound and pressing it up against another found sound and another until, before a listener knows it, they are awash in a symphony of sound that feels like it stitches together as it is washing over you. Tonky is an album that takes its name from a childhood nickname that was affixed to Holley when he lived a portion of his childhood life in a honky tonk. Lonnie Holley’s life of survival and endurance is one that required – and no doubt still requires – a kind of invention.
An invention that is also rich and present in Holley’s songs, which are full and immersive on Tonky, an album that begins with its longest song, a nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called “Seeds,” which begins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faint keys, strings, and atop it all, Holley’s voice, not singing, but speaking plainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence he endured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in pain from beatings. The song expands into a metaphor about place, about the failures of home, or anywhere meant to protect you not living up to what it sells itself to be, even if you tirelessly work at it, work on it, work to make something worthwhile of it.
YouTube video:
LONNIE HOLLEY: https://www.youtube.com/@lonnie-holley/videos
Felvételek:
2LP:
1. Seeds 09:03
2. Life (with Mary Lattimore) 01:21
3. Protest With Love 02:36
4. The Burden (with Angel Bat Dawid) 03:11
5. The Same Stars (with Joe Minter and Open Mike Eagle) 04:49
6. We Was Kings In The Jungle, Slaves In The Field 04:37
7. Strength Of A Song (with Alabaster de Plume) 02:59
8. What’s Going On (with Isaac Brock) 03:24
9. Fear The Machine 00:47
10. I Looked Over My Shoulder (with Billy Woods) 04:23
11. Did I Do Enough- (with Jesca Hoop) 05:42
12. That’s Not Art, That’s Not Music 03:41
13. Those Stars Are Still Shining (with Saul Williams) 01:00
14. A Change Is Gonna Come 04:36
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