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Rest Lessness

by Joe Hollick

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Michael Mikesell Wolf People's music hooked me on the spot, and so did Rest Lessness--before I learned it was helmed by a Wolf Person! I give Hollick highest marks for melody, atmosphere, and texture. A searching quality pervades, like a questing on known terrain, as if Hollick is seeing all from fresh angles, realizing every note anew. Hollick revels in beauty, testing and leaning into musical pillars found to be stable, thinking on his toes and never missing a step. This music will haunt the rest of my summer. Favorite track: Human Hand.
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Smoth 03:18
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Human Hand 09:39
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Somm 07:12
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Totem Hole 15:23
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Bats on Ward 04:38

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Joe Hollick is perhaps best known for wielding a fuzzed up Non-Reverse Firebird in UK psych-folk act Wolf People, however his primary love is for the acoustic guitar, having had one to hand in various open tunings since as far back as he can remember. “Rest Lessness” is his first solo record, but not for the want of trying. After deleting 15 years' worth of recordings on an old hard drive, Joe started afresh in 2020. Inspired by a session with friend Alex Crispin from Baron/Diagonal (two of the tracks featured here are improvised first-takes from that meeting), “Rest Lessness” is an archive of recording every day using an old Tascam 4-track, attempting to weave the process around work and family life, in a bid to to capture those one-off moments of inspiration and flow that can strike at any time.

"In Joe's hands, a single song can carry echoes of all the older music he was drawn to – but simultaneously sound somehow new and unique.

Joe's tastes tend towards the old and overlooked, the strange and the primitive, and his guitar playing seems to summon up the spirits of long dead (and some still living) blues pioneers. On 'Rest Lessness' there is a sense of calm and space as each of the meticulous notes Joe plays has a feeling of wide-open space and exploration - like the flow of a gentle stream as it makes its way to a waterflow where upon the echoing growl and twang brings forth a sublime dissonance.

This is simply an LP that will cast a spell on you within moments of the needle hitting the groove - we just ask of you that if you can put aside 40 minutes of the hustle and bustle of life - Let the sunshine in and let your mind lose itself inside Joe's wonderous playing." - DAVE CAMBRIDGE (Cardinal Fuzz)

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released July 15, 2022

Joe Hollick: Acoustic and electric guitars, dulcimer, zither, percussion, 4-track tape effects and drones, feedback guitar.
Alex Crispin: Drums on tracks 1 and 7.
Karl Eden: Bass on tracks 1, 3 and 7. Additional rhythm guitar and monosynth on track 3.
Nella Hollick: Electric dulcimer on tracks 1 and 4.
Mastered by Alex Crispin, vinyl master by John McBain.
Sleeve art by Joe Hollick.

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