Hototogisu + Burning Star Core – Hototogisu + Burning Star Core [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Beatin Hearts

Beatin Hearts

the title of which hints at the forward-thinking yet earthy nature of his sound

Thanks to pressing plant lags the physical item ‘Ruff Dog’ finally appears six months after the digital release

they are joined by Caleb himself (tape loops and treatments) and Tom Kovacevic (piano and synth)

which also lends its name to this issue of Department of Public Sound 1#2

Hototogisu + Burning Star Core – Hototogisu + Burning Star Core [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Beatin Hearts"HOTOTOGISUthe duo of UK experimentalist MATTHEW BOWER (SKULLFLOWER, SUNROOF et al.) and New York based guitarist MARCIA BASSETT (DOUBLE LEOPARDS, ZAIMPH, GHQ)are all about impact, about taking the physical aspect of sound and hallucinating it to the point of abstraction, so much so that for all of the complexity of their music it often sounds like its standing still, simply hanging in the air and vibrating without anything approaching a plot to bring