Homelife

Location:
Manchester, UK
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Industrial / Regional Mexican / Healing & EasyListening
Label:
madwaltz
Type:
Indie
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Paddy Steer & Tony Burnside have now amassed a sizable back catalogue of releases under the moniker HOMELIFE . It's almost a home recording experiment that grew into an orchestra, gathering in some of MCR's finest musicians, one by one, to create the work with a craftsman's care. Then with equal attention to detail to recreate the music and take it on tour: a labor of love which continued for several years. Then at some point this" red giant" exploded into a "white dwarf"
: Paddy, it seems, decided that he would play all the instruments at once. 'Madness!' I hear you say except; that this is what appears to be happening as he sits at the drum kit plays, bass with his feet and wields dozens of homemade instruments into some strange kinetic sculpture. Now a duo, Tony"s song-writing has come to the fore, nicely balanced by the DIY approach to the instrumentation that keeps it more akin to outsider music than traditional song forms.



HOMELIFE - EXOTIC INTERLUDE
"Your houses, they look like cakes! "(Japanese visitor to Manchester 1993)The world of the exotic lives in the imagination, a way of looking at the world, A useful way of coping now we live on Google Earth, mapped and finite, a shrunken head. More than an interlude, Homelife have painted an Exotic English landscape. An urban crust on heathen clay, the village green from tower blocks. The tower blocks seen distant from green hill sides, Pagan pylons bathed in antiseptic sunlight fingers. Bright moulds, vines and blooms on Victorian iron decay. Feel the sandstone turn to limestone, rock of ages, dirty flags, caves of blue john, land of lakes and red brick evening glow. Exotic Interlude is a mature work, slow brewed. I feel I've heard it all in a dream, its familiar but utterly strange. It might be words engaging me, emotions I can empathize with, uncomfortably honest, sweetened by being set amongst gardens of glowing music. The music is both ethereal yet earthy, with heavy use of acoustic timbres, swarms of coloured percussion, bulbous synths and fresh use of languid Hawaiian guitar. A timeless English summer of a record.—Graham Massey
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