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Keeping a Record of It is the follow-up to Lonnie Holley's debut album, Just Before Music.
Guest performers include Cole Alexander from the Black Lips, Bradford Cox from Deerhunter, and visual artist Lillian Blades.
Lonnie Holley sings with an intense, emotional voice and unleashes lyrics without consistent meter or rhyme over gossamer keyboard lines that hang in the ether. His music is a blues nebula, splotched with riffy word jazz that shares in some rappers' collagist aesthetics as well as the runaway passion of a gospel preacher enlivened by the Spirit. ' Aquarium Drunkard
Tracklisting:
1. Six Space Shuttles and 144,000 Elephants
2. The Start of a River's Run (One Drop)
3. Mind On
4. Sun & Water (featuring Lillian Blades)
5. Making a Joyful Noise
6. From the Other Side of the Pulpit (featuring Bradford Cox and Cole Alexander)
7. Keeping a Record of It (featuring Bradford Cox and Cole Alexander) -
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Fans of Sun Ra, take notice ' there is a new American original on the scene who hails from Birmingham, Alabama. Lonnie Holley's music is unlike anything we have ever heard, and we feel these recordings are a welcome addition to the continuum of music. This album marks the first time Dust-to-Digital has taken an artist into a recording studio. Lonnie Bradley Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh of twenty-seven children.
From the age of 5, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound.Holley's sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.
Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. In Holley's original art environment, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works, repurposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holley's music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation.
Track listing:
1. Looking for All (All Rendered Truth)
2. Here I Stand Knocking at Your Door
3. Mama's Little Baby
4. The End of the Film Era
5. Fifth Child Burning
6. Earthly Things
7. Planet Earth and Otherwheres