Holy Hum - All Of My Bodies (2017) EN

Holy Hum is Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, a universal artist who alongside creating sounds, has also exhibited his works in, e.g.,  the Vancouver Art Gallery. As a musician he has played with Siskiyou and In Medias Res and had a show on Primavera. This time he shows his solo project and, boy, is it awesome.

I'm under impression that it's his way to deal with his Asian origins but I can't really decipher the album cover. What I know though is that his music is really touching. Lee's vocal is full of sadness, longing and melancholia, sounds beautiful e.g. in the perfect "Flowers In The Snow" where it is accompanied by a female vocal (this time it's Kathryn Calder's). Another thing is that there's a lot of guests on the album - both vocalists and musicians playing flute, piano, cello or clarinet.

The whole thing is a mixture of sounds that are so different (from the lamenting strings to epic drums in the backgrounds) that it's super surprising how well they resonate together and how big their influence on the audience is. All of them are great: the lyrical songs, the high-paced ones ("Sex At 31") and those that drowns in an ambient-drone sea ("Joseph Pt. 2") or the one with spine-thrilling backing vocals ("White Buzz"). The album is infinitely complex, it's one of those that have to be listened to all over again.

"All Of My Bodies"costs 7 CAD.

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