The sparkling spiral fall of "Azure Curtain" by San Juan Capistrano's (CALI) based Holden Days, the dream folk project of singer-songwriter, musician Timothy Andrews, and from his recent full length "Peregrine", bends your mind and expands it at the same time. The sonic textures are many from lo-fi, vintage and sparkling new and the collision of these tones feel like a walk through a multi-colored kaleidoscope. Andrews ability to paint with these textures push emotional buttons and at one point he blends in a personal vintage recording that pulls back this azure curtain even more.
He shares:
This song was created through quite a few mystical and unconventional means, drawing from years-untouched tapes from my late grandmother's tapes (including one of her singing), electronic and pumping drums from the Casio Rapman II drum machine, and manipulated guitar-based sequences. Throughout this song, you will hear lavish vocal harmonies, tense lyrical longing, and bursts of climbing synthesizer lines, all while moving at a steady pace to close the album that followed it :)
The song that 'grandmother' is singing is "And I Love You So" (1973) popularized by Perry Como whose heyday was in the 40's and 50's. The song was penned by Don McLean (American Pie) and is a truly beautiful moving song. The way Andrew's places it (as sung by his grandmother) within his own musical bed is both inexplicable and incredibly moving (even more so if you know the original song).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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"Holden Days is the dream-folk project of Southern California based Timothy Andrews. Awash with immersive observations that contain a beckoning reminiscence, his works exist within an atmospheric space of diaphanous sentiment. Throughout each piece, earnest and often gentle vocals rise and fall alongside flourishing instrumentation. Holden Days’ latest release, Peregrine, is a mesmeric dreamscape that glimmers with wistfulness amid daunting disparity between life and dreams. Built upon textured recollections, it shifts between alluring tenderness and pensive longing, with each song containing an essence of entrancement."
-A.Eyestone
Holden Days, folk, dream folk, San Juan Capistrano, California, musician, singer-songwriter, Timothy Andrews, lo-fi, vintage, folk indie, "Azure Curtain", "Peregrine" album
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