Blessing the Water within Us All

Continuing the recent trend of sonic exploration, here’s a nice progressive acoustic drone jam recorded with some folks after a dinner party on Saturday.

Drones of Dust / Drones of Light

Bowl of Dust & Co. is currently organizing new explorations in natural sound play.

Last night a group of harmonious and uninhibited practitioners recorded drones and textures. The setting was a lovely and large room at some friends’ Chicago warehouse space. As we played, we waited for borscht and other slow cooked goodies to melt in their crocks upstairs.

Here are the raw recordings, captured by Shannon Marie Kerrigan.

Practitioners: Jose Luna, Jake Acosta, Shannon Marie Kerrigan, Drew Gibson, Stevie Peck, Moe, Tom Owens, Sophie Creutz, Kyle Drouin, Kyle Klipowicz.

Children of Avraham

Bowl of Dust & Co. presents an acoustic parlor exploration.

Personnel:

Momma Cat (Water), The Humminbird (Air), Sophie (Earth), Kyle (Fire).

Good Relations: Peyote Music

My friend Dalton introduced me to Peyote Music a few years back. I haven’t been able to listen to anything else for the past 18 hours.

When you can cook a meal and make beautiful music with other folks in complete harmony, it feels a lot like some really Good Relations!

Congratulations to my sister and brother-in-law on the birth of their first baby, my first niece!

~Kyle

Groundsman Publishing

Brian Lewis-Jones from Bowl of Dust & Co. has been writing a Novelette about an experience he had in Post-Katrina New Orleans.

You can follow updates about the story at his website, Groundsman Publishing.

http://groundsmanpublishing.com/

The Humminbird: Majesty of the Majestic [Album Review]

“Majesty of the Majestic” opens with the distinctive drone of an electronic Indian sruti box layered with clay ocarina bird calls. These textures mark the passage into a world of ancient power and sensuous contemplation. An autoharp strum and breathy voice break through in long syrupy glissando.

I’m the result of two random organisms, an in and out.

I’m a result of the rain and the wind, the black and white.

Through truth, the light.

Don’t fright as I might.

This is the sonic tapestry of The Humminbird. Muyassar Kurdi, a linguistics graduate student in Chicago, IL has set herself apart as a beatific staple of the DIY scene. Wrapped in vague poetic mists like an arabic scarf, her music is evocative of other artists of mystery: Mazzy Star, Vashti Bunyan, and Selda Bağcan.

With your head on my abdomen, it’s the only thing that feels perpetual.

The Humminbird lilts and glides through topics varied and timeless. From the pleasures of love to the heartbreak of the lost, the content is poetic and archetypal. Harmonium, lap harp, bells and vocal overdubs pass through a catacombs of effects pedals with the dimensionality of a lost temple.

From the psyche-pop croons of “Two Random Organisms”, to the gothic church bell dulcitones of “Towns People”, and the midnight manifesto of “Adorned with Feathers”, Kurdi has assembled a palate of exotic sonic fragrances into an audible perfume.

The line “I do not expect to graze the sky with my fingers” reveals a contentedly imperfect existence in a brokenly perfect world, in which all are lone wolves. We wander together, weaving in and out of our life paths through the dark woods of experience.

~Kyle Klipowicz

ALBUM RELEASE: SOUR MASH

Bowl of Dust & Co. are proud to introduce Sour Mash, our first recorded album, available for streaming, download, and limited-edition cassette.

Please give it a listen, and share it with your folks!

Recording Update

We had a great session at Rumble Arts Center with Jake Acosta from Teen River the other week and wanted to share a few production photos with y’all.

Ready to roll.

Kyle Drouin on percussion.

The most versatile substance ever.

Johnny D being himself.

Jake and Kyle engineering.

Cool piano reflection shot.

Brian Lewis-Jones auditioning takes at Rumble Studios.

Look out for our recording on Teen River in January 2012.