New Record By Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen and Tom Blancarte Out May 8th
The Home of Easy Credit is the eponymous debut recording from husband and wife team Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen and Tom Blancarte. Taking their name from a department store sign in a dilapidated section of downtown Houston, Texas (Blancarte’s native state), the duo draw their inspiration from the gradual awareness of the decline of civilization which permeates our culture. Hailing from a remote rural region of Denmark, Jensen uses subtle and not-so-subtle electronics to blend her vocal, saxophone and flute work with Tom Blancarte’s furious bass playing, creating one of the most unique sound worlds in contemporary music. Featuring tortured sonic landscapes that conjure up Stockhausen and Feldman as readily as Björk or Mike Patton, their debut on Northern Spy Records is a meditation on the bleakness of modern America and the western world in general. The album contains a tightly-constructed musical narrative; five short auditory haikus named for permutations of the American Dream posited by Ted Ownby are interspersed between longer, open-form pieces whose titles reference cubicles, the dark side of Frank Lloyd Wright and the books of Michael Pollan and James Howard Kunstler, among other subjects. The Home of Easy Credit paints a musical portrait of a commercialized and homogenized consumer culture that is slowly waking up to realize that it is completely fucked.
Street Date: May 8th, 2012
Artist: The Home Of Easy Credit
Title: Self-Titled
Catalog Number: NS 023
Genre: Improv/Experimental
Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Barcode: 722301231500
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FEATURED ARTISTS
Tom Blancarte: upright bass
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TRACK LIST
1. Monolithic Insanity (dedicated to Robert Propst)
2. The Dream of a Democracy of Goods
3. The Feast of the Meal Replacement Bars
4. The Dream of Abundance
5. A Fireproof House for $5000
6. The Dream of Novelty
7. Arches of Gold
8. The Dream of the Pursuit of Happiness
9. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
10. The Dream of Freedom of Choice
11. Geography of Nowhere
12. Only 827 Miles to Wall Drug – with FREE ICE WATER!
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT HOEC
“Suggesting that a youth digging Geddy Lee and John Paul Jones may not be completely misspent, the bassist produces powerful tones in a variety of times and tempos.” – Ken Waxman, JazzWord
“Female sax players are still a relative rarity nowadays outside of Biggi Vinkeloe & Ingrid Laubrock. We can now add Louise Jensen to that slowly growing list of fine sax explorers” - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
“Elements of deep jazz skill intermingling with mostly quiet yet dissonant electronics in the service of intense spaced-out songcraft” – Ted Reichman
“the real beauty of their playing is best enjoyed while holding your breath to avoid making any sound.” – punktum
“Incredible blending of female voice, saxophone, and gnarly double bass; the instruments are used both as solo voices and ensembles in almost every conceivable way. The duo’s work stands strongly apart from any kind of generic so-called free improvisation- both in the roles the instruments play as well as the way they are electronically modified. Dramatic, beautiful but above all very unusual music.” – Trumpeter Peter Evans
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