Музыка и песни Holley, Lonnie / Holley, Lonnie

"Keeping a Record of It" is the follow-up to Lonnie Holley's debut album, "Just Before Music." It features recordings made in 2006, 2010 and 2011. Guest performers include Cole Alexander from the Black Lips, Bradford Cox from Deerhunter, and visual artist Lillian Blades. "Last year, at 62, after decades of singing while he worked, Holley released his jarring debut album, Just Before Music, a marriage of improvised keys and the rambling, hollow bellow of his voice, as well as the first original recording put out by the archival folk label Dust-to-Digital. This year, he'll tour, and he recently starred in a Whitney Museum group show, [1]lues for Smoke.'" - The Fader "Lonnie Holley certainly fits Dust-to-Digital's continuum and mission of seeking out the overlooked and offering it a spotlight. It's never too late to discover a treasure. Holley has been an art-world star for some time. Overlooked until now, his music doesn't simply demand attention; his songs devour it." -Grayson Currin Record Label: Dust To Digital Style: Independent

Just Before Music" is the debut album by Lonnie Holley. Available on vinyl for the first time, the double LP includes four songs Holley recorded live at WFMU on March 21, 2013. "Last year, at 62, after decades of singing while he worked, Holley released his jarring debut album, "Just Before Music", a marriage of improvised keys and the rambling, hollow bellow of his voice, as well as the first original recording put out by the archival label Dust-to-Digital. This year, he'll tour, and he recently performed in a Whitney Museum group show, [1]lues for Smoke.'" - The Fader Record Label: Dust To Digital Style: Independent

Keeping a Record of It" is the follow-up to Lonnie Holley's debut album, "Just Before Music." Guest performers include Cole Alexander from the Black Lips, Bradford Cox from Deerhunter, and visual artist Lillian Blades. "Lonnie Holley sings with an intense, emotional voice and unleashes lyrics without consistent meter or rhyme over gossamer keyboard lines that hang in the ether. His music is a blues nebula, splotched with riffy word jazz that shares in some rappers' collagist aesthetics as well as the runaway passion of a gospel preacher enlivened by the Spirit." - Aquarium Drunkard Record Label: Dust To Digital Style: Independent

Fans of Sun Ra, take notice - there is a new American original on the scene who hails from Birmingham, Alabama. Lonnie Holleys music is unlike anything we have ever heard, and we feel these recordings are a welcome addition to the continuum of music. This album marks the first time Dust-to-Digital has taken an artist into a recording studio. Lonnie Bradley Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh of twenty-seven children. From the age of 5, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holleys sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. In Holleys original art environment, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works, repurposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holleys music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation Record Label: Dust To Digital Style: Independent