Hume
Hume's video for the latest single "Inverse Fireworks":
Hume kicked off five years ago, the constantly metamorphosing product of guitarist/bassist/composer Britton Powell’s high school philosophy class daydreams and basement-recording sessions.
In these early days, Hume was hard to pin down. One minute it was a solo-project, the next it was a group of free-form improvisers, then a string quartet, and finally a full-fledged band performing expansive prog-rock in a giant octopus-shaped sculpture. Whatever was going on, it was always interesting. The last touring line-up of the group featured two drummers, two basses, and three saxophones performing a single 30-minute composition that Powell wrote during a six-month trip to India.
But somewhere during the last two years, Powell decided that the constant line-up changes were not getting him where he wanted to go.
Inspired in equal parts by James Brown’s touring band and the prog-rock titans of yesteryear, Powell decided that it was time to buckle-down and get tight. He rallied the heads together--recruiting drummer and long time collaborator Wilson Kemp (Macaw), bassist/multi-instrumentalist Joey Doubek (Mass Movement of the Moth) and guitarist, Peter Tran . Months of rehearsals followed. The group dug in deep, cloistering themselves in a group house basement for rigorous practice sessions—trying to find the balance between composition and spontaneity, to figure out how to ride knotty prog-riffs into deep trasnplendent bliss-outs.
The band just released a new 7" with two tracks, 'Inverse Fireworks' and 'One Drug'. A follow up to last year's enigmatic EP, Penumbra, the 7" finds the band refining its sprawling sound with economy and focus. Info for purchasing the new 'Inverse Fireworks' 7" below:
Side A - 'Inverse Fireworks' Side B - 'One Drug' -------------- Info for Hume's Penumbra EP below: 1. Golden Hour Stream Penumbra via SoundCloud: ----------------------- Hume’s Phat Daughter String Quartet, collects four unique string-based compositions on the a-side backed by massive dub versions of those same pieces on the b-side. Hume’s Britton Powell is one of the most exciting Washington, DC based songwriters and Sockets is pleased to share this release with Hugh McElroy's Ruffian Records imprint. As the DC City Paper writes, Hume "deftly splices the quartet into some heavy reggae riddims, sounds kind of like Arvo Part paying a visit to Black Ark."
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'Inverse Fireworks' 7"
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$6.50ppd (International orders add $4)
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Penumbra EP
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$13ppd (International orders add $4)
2. Jefferson
3. Injera
4. Grip (LISTEN)
5. Tollteller
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The Phat Daughter String Quartet LP
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$12ppd (International orders add $4)
