with special guests:
Kevin Robinson - bass
Jefrey Leighton Brown - tenor sax on Alice's Journey
Seth Lorinczi - keyboards
Special thanks to Julianna Bright for the high notes
All songs but Alice's Journey engineered and produced by Seth Lorinczi and Hungry Ghost.
Influences
Alice Coltrane, Led Zeppelin, John Fahey, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, The Meters, Blind Willie Johnson, William Onyeabor, Ofo the Black Company, Geechie Wiley, Irving Klaw Trio
From parts as far and wide as Staten Island, Indiana, Olympia, and Portland featuring former members of The Irving Klaw Trio and Unwound.
Some press:
Hungry Ghost
Former Unwound drummer Sara Lund was last spotted in L.A. at this summer's 88 Boadrum show at the La Brea Tar Pits, where she reaffirmed her capable chops - which run equal to rhythm masters like Fugazi's Brendan Canty or the Blues Explosion's Russell Simins. Lund's always been the one in the band to lay down a rock-solid foundation for fun, fast, contagious music, and so it is with her new outfit, Hungry Ghost. After she made the short hop from Olympia, Washington, to Portland, Lund hooked up with Andrew Price of the Irving Klaw Trio to create Hungry Ghost's rumbling storm of danceable blues and crunchy riffs, with a little Primus-like bounce thrown in for kicks. Price, who does most of the singing, has a plastic-man ability to bend ferocious melodies with his guitar when he's consuming the spaces in and around Lund's beats: It's a true partnership that evolves as the songs progress, filling up the room with sprawling, funky contortions. (Wendy Gilmartin)
--LA Weekly
Portland's Hungry Ghost, compiled from equal parts Andrew Price and former Unwound drummer Sara Lund, adapt the latter band's use of repetition by draping it with roots-tinged guitar riffs and funked-up vocal rambling. (Grant Brissey)
--The Stranger
It probably shouldn’t surprise us that former Unwound drummer Sara Lund’s new band has a funky side: Unwound’s math punk was always pretty danceable. But damn if her new duo Hungry Ghost’s particular brand of funk-roots-punk doesn’t kill us the same way Unwound did. (CJ). Doug Fir.
--Willamette Week MFNW Guide
Back at Doug Fir, the showcase began with former Unwound drummer Sara Lund's new two-piece band, Hungry Ghost. Lund and guitarist Andrew Price (formerly of Irving Klaw Trio) dished up a giddy, economically constructed set of street-walking power punk shaded with just the right hue of blues to evoke the White Stripes, but with enough creativity and technical prowess to make it easy to imagine them blowing ole Meg and Jack off the stage. Lund is easily one of the most gifted post-punk drummers this side of Fugazi's Brendan Canty, and there's no good reason that Hungry Ghost shouldn't have plenty of packed shows in their future.
--Seattle Weekly
Hi Sara,we are a Belgian Waffles cover band. We were wondering if you were influenced by Guy Evans from Van Der Graaf Generator. We did one song by them so far and will do at least one more later. I(John K) started listening to both TBW and VDGG in 1990 but it wasn't until Pandora pointed out to me the similarities in drum styles in 2006.
i like...i hear you both loud and clear and it meshes nicely. go to IK3 for more songs - all from the drew-archive, but with relevant pictures found. billy ruane! ayler! balachander! kboo!
