Weekly mp3 #93: Hulk - Elephant Memory

The Frozen Elephants Music net label released this track on its first compilation, The Map Is Not The Territory.

Little snippets of a woman singing give way to plucked strings. A higher plucked instrument is fitfully accompanied by pizzicato bass. Is that muted brass or distant foghorns passing through? Are we lost at sea? Should I be happy about this? (Because I'm pretty stoked.) The vocal fragments come and go and the track shifts restlessly. Higher drawn out notes might be strings. Lower drawn out notes definitely are strings, and are playing something quite beautiful. Is that an old film projector left running after the end of the reel?

Irish producer Hulk evidently runs a label called Osaka. He's released some other good stuff and seems to be good. I picked up his most recent album last year via Amie Street and it's pretty good.