- Electronic music
- Alternative
- DIY
- Psychedelic
- Art music
- Synth-rock
- Tribal music
- World
fusion
- Avant-pop
- Experimental pop
- Crossover
Comment: the
Englishman Johnny Crewdson is back with his project The Hirundu. By
me he is always being welcomed because he used to have always
something intriguing to say. Neverthless, he has been active for
three decades already and musically The Hirundu has been a fabulous
case by having been a platform for every kind of sonorous
experimentation veering away from provoking an outsider lo-fi and
DIY-tinged aesthetic and psychedelic alternative rock and nihilistic
post-punk tendencies to frantic, dada-inspired radiophonic and
disparate kind of electronic and ambient music experiments. In fact,
something new will be added with every brand new ones and something
old will be reflected back. That's what used to be called cohesive
creative process and adhesive feedback, respectively, isn't. By
listening to the first half of this 14-notch release one may think of
it as a chill-out release in terms of The Hirundu because frequently
those compositions lose weight by gravitating in a haphazard yet
joyous manner with some sort of easiness with supportive faint
reverberations of ecstasy (no hints at the pill, though). I am very
convinced Johnny created it with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The
touch of poignant humor always helps and adds an extra value to a
mix. With regard to it, for instance, one can think of Frank Zappa,
and Captain Beefheart. More profoundly, the course of the first side
runs across a patchwork-alike landscape. On the other side, the
poignant humor is not the case for confined persons. There is no
possibility to think of the album in an ambivalent way – it is
thoroughly uncompromising and without any hints at a sleazy taste. Oh
damn, I shall have to say again – a favourite issue in 2018. A case
of breathtaking music indeed.
