The Lonely Ship
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Royal Mountain
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Waiting
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Back when we were in full swing we received some promotional CD’s from a couple different music publishers. We were doing great and were more than happy to start actually receiving promos as members of the media. Unfortunately, there were a couple things going on in the background that were a serious strain to us.
One of the major issues we were encountering was what is call an SQL Injection Attack. In layman’s terms, someone was trying to hack our site using vulnerabilities in our “contact us” section. They failed, and eventually we were able to take care of the issue in a more permanent form (they never actually gained access to the site, but it was a pain never the less). That, plus new home purchases plus people moving across the country all amounted to, well…us going away for month upon month. We tried on occasion to start up but our other endeavors were too many, and it would fail.
This is one of the promos we had received, and we felt strongly that we should post about them, even if it might be a little too late to coincide with the launch of their new album. The three listed pieces come from their album Trapeze, which launched in mid 2009.
The album itself is somewhat eclectic in that there is no inherent theme to the taken as a whole (that we could find, at least). That’s just fine by us, as sometimes it can get boring listening to the the style of music over and over (which is why “random” is probably the most used control on our music devices). The Lonely Ship, for example, is a pretty typical smooth alternative piece. Nice and calm. Then you run into Royal Mountain.
Royal Mountain was the first one that caught our ear and made us stop and listen. It, again, starts out somewhat circumspect until the chorus. Then French. Take THAT. The story it tells is something worth listening to we think as well (the French is a small enough part that you don’t miss TOO much. Though the bridge is also in French…oh-well…learn a romantic language then you are set.)
Third is Waiting. It’s certainly got some of that blues feel many of us have come to love, but fails to really fall directly into any of the definable sub-categories of blues (and therefore is technically alternative…but it’s not…).
HuDost themselves debuted in 2005 with their album “In an Eastern Rose Garden”. This set the tone for most of their music, being an amalgamation of Eastern music with some very deeply rooted western overtones, throw in some other cultural twists every once and awhile, and you pretty much have it. They originally consisted of Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines, and have since expanded to include “an Walters on bass, John de Kadt on percussion, George Tortorelli on flutes…” (per their own information on Facebook). Much of their music has a definate French influence (as mentioned earlier) which is assumed to come from their Canadian rootage.
We like the majority of what they have put out there, and think you will too.
