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August 29, 2006

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Following his (sporadically ongoing) work with Sunburned Hand of the Man, the incredible soul-whisper of the Trees, Chants and Hollers LP he cut for Eclipse, and the equally-tit-like Astral Blessings LP on Mad Monk, Paul Labrecque (of Belgium) dispensed this solo LP. Recorded in June, 2007, it layers banjos, guitars, vocals and smoke as though they were shimmering veins of black pearls, pulsing against the scarlet dawn. Labrecque manages to take a conceptual precept as dark as life itself, and invests it with an inner glow that churns our own black hearts like butter. An amazing slab of massive, subtly-wrought psychedelia played in the highest key imaginable. Long thought o/p, this lone box was recently discovered in the shadows. Move over George Stavis, and tell Billy Faier the news. Edition of 500 with silkscreened cover and insert. ______________________________________________________________________ _ This is the first solo vinyl release by Paul Labrecque of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and it feels like the long-awaited follow-up to the classic album he cut with Valerie Webb, Trees, Chants and Hollers on Eclipse.___ It's a mix of psychedelic banjo hymns - some of which are cut up with glorious widescreen field recordings of thunder cracking and rain pouring down - and ancient sounding guitar instrumentals that would build a bridge between Sandy Bull's settings of sacred music and the most ecstatic Popol Vuh recordings.___ A ton of atmosphere on this and it beats hands-down virtually any 'American primitive' solo guitar release of the last too many years.___ This is solo string thought that genuinely bears comparison with the Takoma sound - historically, aesthetically, sonically - while sounding nothing like the work of a 'pupil' and factoring in a bunch of wildcard styles, ranging from monolithic European rock through apocalyptic UK space/folk and drugged 90s underground.___ A totally fantastic late night transport, a modern classic, highly recommended.______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ aside from the right-hand clawhammer motorik (which he’s got in spades), my favorite moments are when he dials it back a little for some bedroom-guitar extrapolation (some of the mellow, snaking lines bring me back to the first time i heard träd gräs och stenar) ... amazing it’s taken him this long to commit these bits to tape ; the whole thing has a kind of late-night / early-dawn devotional kind of feel to it, with flashes of nashville / memphis phrasing (think sandy bull, or even the more guitar-centric bits florian fricke did for herzog) that, frankly, sound really damn good ... __________

Influences:

Michael Hurley Roy Harper Harmonia Roscoe Holcomb

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Open Mouth, Ecstatic Yod, Conspiracy Records