catalogue

BONNIE STILLWATTER

THE DEVIL IS PEOPLE (TEMPORARY RESIDENCE)

BONNIE STILLWATTER - THE DEVIL IS PEOPLE 82978
format:
1 12"
release:
24.04.2015
label:
TEMPORARY RESIDENCE
item ID:
82978
barcode:
0656605325316
BONNIE STILLWATTER is a conceptual collaboration of artistry and friendship between WILL OLDHAM (aka BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY), experimental rock group WATTER (featuring a member of GRAILS), and STILLWATER ARTISANAL, a nomadic brewer that mixes equal parts art and alcohol.

This collaboration is an inspired one, the roots of which are a mutual respect and love, and the fruits of which are two side-long trips into dark cinematic folk-rock determined to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

"The Devil Is People" begins not unlike the east-meets-west melancholy of Watter and Grails.

Oldham's penchant for weaving singer with song is particularly resonant here; his firstperson storytelling has an uncanny way of sounding communal - almost hymnal - when wrapped in ever-unfolding layers of warm sound.

On the b-side, mercurial multi-instrumentalist/producer Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise, Gastr del Sol) explodes "The Devil Is People", rearranging and reinterpreting its multitude of instruments and voices into something more sinister - less a remix, more like a vital new limb growing from the belly of the beast.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. THE DEVIL IS PEOPLE
  • 1.2. THE DEVIL IS PEOPLE (THE CHEECH WIZARD'S HEMIOLIC CHANTEY AT THE EDGE ...)