HOLIDAY - HUE BLANES
Written over a two-year period and heavily influenced by Hue’s troubled and anxious state of mind at the time, he explains,
“the album was written while I was living with a schizophrenic golfing marijuana shaman who spent 8 hours a day shaking maracas on his knees whilst massaging himself and giving complex advice on posture and world politics to the other housemates and myself…
Things needed to change. I wrote songs and got some new housemates. Meanwhile the shaman is living in a volcano in Nicaragua and having a great time and I’m releasing the album 3 years later and still in the same house.”
STRAIGHT CHASER - HUE BLANES TRIO
Hue Blanes, Ben Hanlon, and Daniel Farrugia have been playing as a trio everytime the stars align, and the soup is right.
Their first jazz trio album is an exploration of the musical concept 'contrafact'. A contrafact is a composition that uses the chord progressions of an existing tune.
‘Autumn Nightmares’ is the only contrafact of the album. ‘What’ll I do’, a fake contrafact. The other compositions belong somewhere along those two extremes of that musical concept.
Monk swung it, this trio played it straight.
