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Woven Hand - Blush Music review

by Tino Hanekamp
from German magazine Visions, issue 119, February 2003

„I see music in images", said 16 Horsepower singer David Eugene Edwards. His Woven Hand solo debut last year sounded accordingly, a tonal dark drama. Hereafter came Wim Vandekeybus, who sees music as dance, with his dance-theatre project Ultima Vez. He needed music for his new piece and asked Edwards, who saw the opportunity to „broaden his musical horizon“, and created „Blush Music“.

Some pieces from his Woven Hand firstling, the crows in the trees behind the house, the voices of his wife and children, the old, wooden instruments from the basement - all that he brings together here in songs that aren't songs, because they're boundless. This here is painting with sound. A one-off running of tones and noises. A threatening cracking and wheezing, scraping and pushing. Discord and delirium, apocalypse and grace, mania and miracle.

„Blush Music“ is an unconventional remix album, a labyrinthine sonic carpet for twitching bodies with images for the ears.



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