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Quartz Hive

by Old Million Eye

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about

Beautiful third LP helmed by multi-instrumentalist/tape manipulator, Brian Lucas. Following up on 2021’s The Incandescent Switch (FTR 606) and 2022’s The Air’s Chrysalis Chime (FTR 675), Quartz Hive is a post-pandemic swirl of cloud sound based on the kind of music that makes all your inner walls melt like wax.

Lucas has a wonderful way of creating clusters of texture that circle the room, slowly accreting bits of lovely ambient sound that transform themselves from vague suggestions into full-blown songs without adhering to any logic other than their own. Some of the players colluding here are Old Million Eye vets, like Steven R. Smith, Sheila Bosco and Kevin Van Yserloo. But there are many new heads on the scene as well, like harpist Ceylan Hay (Bell Lungs) and saxophonist Zekarias Thompson (Agnes Martian), who adds a distinct Canterbury flavor to the tunes on which he plays.

Like Lucas’s other current outfits, like 43 Odes and Dire Wolves, Old Million Eye makes psychedelic music that glides through your head with startling originality. There’s very little here that hews to stereotypical psych formulae, but its tendrils still manage to engage all your dream receptors with delicate power and grace.

Music as deep as any tab in any ocean. Quarts Hive is a sonic delivery vehicle of singular beauty. Gorgeous stuff.

–Byron Coley, 2024

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credits

released February 23, 2024

Brian Lucas: vocals, guitar, bass, keys, synth

Jem Fanvu: vocals, electric piano, guitar (4)
Bill Evans: steel guitar (2.6)
Steven R. Smith: harmonium, brush guitar, noise
Zekarias Thompson: saxophone
Stuart Chalmers: bells, dulcimer, swarmandal
Sheila Bosco: synthesizer, percussion (5.6)
Joe Imwalle: piano
Ceylan Hay: harp
Kevin Van Yserloo: violin
Benjamin Rogers: cello, Korg MS-20, back cover design
Kevin Corcoran: percussion (1-4)

Recorded at Jackson Palms, Oakland CA and various other wonderful cities and countries 2022/2023

Mastered by Sean McCann

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