What I love about listening to a variety off music is the fact
sometimes you honestly never know what you are going to.
On Christmas Day for example I set my music matchjukebox
on my PC to play some tracks at total random, and it
pulled out some tracks which threw me a little certainly.
First up it brought up some post disco music from Blackpool called
‘Little Boots’ which was then followed up with some mood music
from the last but one Nine Inch Nails album ‘Ghosts’, which was
then followed in due course by a couple of tracks from one of
my bands DIH (off it's forthcoming album) and then suddenly it
threw out some tracks I didn’t know.
I had a look further into this and jukebox didn’t say who the
track was. It just said audio track 2, which said to me it was
probably something I would have ripped from a CD or CDR to
drop onto my mp3 player. Either way, it was beautiful instrumental
recorded just an what I was getting with a guitar with a primal
hunger that I had heard since Nick Drake’s ‘Pink Moon’ album.
The music was mood music certainly with a timeless hunger that
could have recorded in the 1930’s or 1940’s but had a feel to
it that suggested to me it sounded like it had being recorded
recently. I looked into the mp3’s further and traced them to
a folder on my PC which told me the name of the artist
was ‘Music for One’ and the album was called‘The Red Thumb’.
Without offering tons off whaffle, I first met Canadian
born Sherry Ostapovitch aka Music for One at a house
party concert in Levenshulme in 2005. I’d never forget
that set as she played a frightening guitar set which mixed
crunching solo guitar with effects and delay pedals which
left both me and my mate stunned for a few days later.
This album is a lot softer and completely different in
tone, as interestingly on the sleeve notes it says it
was recorded on a 2 track tape recorder in a handful
of hours in Spring 2007 with no multi tracking
or editing. Certainly from listening to the album, the tone
is certainly suggestive of a night time recording with
songs in a complete change in tone from the first time
I saw her.
Songs here since certainly seem to be reaching back
to the past, hence the reference to Nick Drake
before but also touching to old, old blues records
which probably makes sense considering a cover
version of Skip James’s (Devil’s got my woman) is
at the end of the record which could be slight
reference to her own guitar playing with the title
alone.
Either way, the playing here is ghostly and on
some songs for ‘The wind from the Irish Sea’ the guitar
is so faint, it almost sounded like it was almost recorded
in another room in places, but played so subtle when
you get into the album, it is a difficult place to pull yourself
out off.
Recommended.
For more details – contact Sherry directly on
OR go to this page on her page which has a couple off mp3's
available for sampling (they are lovely)
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