Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions: Until The Hunter (2 CD Bonus Tracks) 2016

 

Hope Sandoval (born June 24, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of

Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions. Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists, including Massive Attack, for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album Heligoland and the 2016 single "The Spoils".
                            

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions are an independent alternative/dream pop band composed of

Hope Sandoval from the band Mazzy Star and Colm Ó Cíosóig of My Bloody Valentine. Sandoval formed The Warm Inventions in 2000 and released her first solo album Bavarian Fruit Bread in 2001, which she recorded with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. The album differed in terms of theme, voice, and instrumentation from that of her work with Mazzy Star.
                               

Bert Jansch plays guitar on two tracks, and the album features two covers, "Butterfly Mornings" from

the film The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and Jesus and Mary Chain's "Drop". The Warm Inventions released two EPs, At the Doorway Again in 2000 and Suzanne in 2002 but did not win commercial success, with one video on MTV and little radio play. Sandoval recorded a song, "Wild Roses", for a compilation CD released by Air France, In the Air (2008).
                         

                         
Their first studio album, Bavarian Fruit Bread, was released on October 23, 2001. Alan Browne, from Irish band Dirt Blue Gene, played bass and co-wrote several songs on the album. Hope Sandoval and

The Warm Inventions released their second album, Through the Devil Softly, on September 29, 2009. Sandoval and her band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England. The group also played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York in September 2010 at the request of film director Jim Jarmusch.
                                

Through the Devil Softly was released on September 29, 2009, and was recorded with Dirt Blue Gene.

Their third album, Until the Hunter, was released on November 4, 2016. Its first single, "Isn't It True", was released on 7" vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2016. A second single, "Let Me Get There" featuring Kurt Vile, was released on September 23.
                              

In a 2016 interview with Consequence of Sound, Ó Cíosóig explained how the musical composition

differed from his and Hope's other bands, "It's not that our other bands have restrictions, but there's a certain sound in those bands. Hope and I have a sound, but it's always changing and morphing into different things while still carrying a similar thread."
                   

The album-opening "Into the Trees" is a very, very slowly unspooling psych folk ballad that doesn't have much of a tune, but grabs the listener by the throat using its foggy chords, mysterious organ, and Sandoval's almost possessed vocals. It lasts for nine minutes, but could have gone on twice as long. The

rest of the album is fully up to the standards Sandoval has established over time, with heart-tugging ballads like the very Mazzy Star-sounding "The Peasant" and the lovely "Day Disguise," languid folk songs ("The Hiking Song," "A Wonderful Seed"), and even a couple songs of a more sprightly-than-usual nature, the handclap-driven "I Took a Slip" and the almost jaunty "Isn't it True." As on previous Warm Inventions records, Sandoval and Ó Cíosóig prove masters of creating atmospheric settings for her luminous vocals. 

                           

HOPE  SANDOVAL  &  KURT  VILE

The duet with Kurt Vile on "Let Me Get There" features the duo getting loose over a slinky

HOPE  SANDOVAL  &  KURT  VILE

Memphis soul groove: Sandoval sounding strangely at home in unfamiliar surroundings, Vile sounding like he wandered in off the street and barely learned the song. It's too bad he got the gig -- there are at least 50 male singers who could have nailed it in his place. The album-opening "Into the Trees" is a very, very slowly unspooling psych folk ballad that doesn't have much of a tune, but grabs the listener by the throat using its foggy chords, mysterious organ, and Sandoval's almost possessed vocals.
                     

KURT  VILE  &  HOPE  SANDOVAL

Kurt Samuel Vile (born January 3, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,

and record producer. He is known for his solo work and as the former lead guitarist of rock band the War on Drugs. Both in the studio and during live performances, Vile is accompanied by his backing band, the Violators, which currently includes Jesse Trbovich (guitar, saxophone), Rob Laakso (guitar, bass, keyboards), Kyle Spence (drums) and Adam Langellotti (bass).
                           

The addition of vibraphone and the slightly more expansive arrangements help make the album a subtle

progression from the first two, so do the increased number of catchy songs. The duo have crafted another beautiful album and Sandoval sounds just as bewitching as she did the first time she stepped behind a microphone. Seven years is a long time to wait between albums, but if that's how long it takes to make the album as good as this is, then the wait was worth it.  

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions

Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)
Through the Devil Softly (2009)
Until the Hunter (2016)

Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions – Until The Hunter
Label: Tendril Tales – TT 03, Tendril Tales – tt03, Tendril Tales – TT03CD, Tendril Tales – TT 03B
Format: 2CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: Nov 4, 2016
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Alternative Rock, Acoustic, Shoegaze, Ethereal

TRACKS

DISC 1.

                                     

01. Into The Trees    9:04
02. The Peasant    4:58
03. A Wonderful Seed    4:19
04. Let Me Get There (Featuring – Kurt Vile)   7:31
05. Day Disguise    4:51
06. Treasure    5:54
07. Salt Of The Sea    4:22
08. The Hiking Song    4:29
09. Isn't It True    3:05
10. I Took A Slip    4:04
11. Liquid Lady    6:23

DISC 2. BONUS TRACKS       

                                              

  
12. That Spider    4:09
13. She's In The Wall    3:32

NOTES

Artwork – Barry Bödeker
Backing Vocals – Hope Sandoval, Mariee Sioux
Bass – Al Browne
Cello – Ji-Young Moon
Drums – Colm Ó Cíosóig
Gong, Nyckelharpa [Nickleharp] – Michael Masley
Guitar [Guitars] – Charles Cullen, Colm Ó Cíosóig, Dave Brennan, Jim Putnam
Keyboards – Hope Sandoval, Mick Whelan
Producer – Colm Ó Cíosóig, Hope Sandoval
Vibraphone [Vibes] – Hope Sandoval
Vocals – Hope Sandoval, Kurt Vile, Mariee Sioux
Written-By – Alan Montgomery (tracks: 1-11), Charles Cullen (tracks: 1-6), Colm Ó Cíosóig (tracks: 1-1, 1-3 to 1-5, 1-7 to 1-11), Dave Brennan (3) (tracks: 1-11), Hope Sandoval

MP3 @ 320 Size: 154 MB
Flac  Size: 361 MB

Mazzy Star on Urban Aspirines HERE

Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly 1990 + Seasons Of Your Day 2013

 

Dark Psychedelic Rock dreams from California.
Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California from remnants of the group Opal, in 1988. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's

vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal. Mazzy Star has deep roots within the Californian Paisley Underground movement of the early 1980s. David Roback, along with his brother Steven, was one of the main architects of leading Los Angeles psychedelic revival band the Rain Parade. Leaving that band after their first LP, he founded Clay Allison in 1983 with then-girlfriend, ex-Dream Syndicate bassist Kendra Smith.
                                                                                    

Soon after the publication of their sole release, the 1983 double A-sided single "Fell From the Sun"/"All Souls", Clay Allison renamed themselves Opal and released the LP Happy Nightmare Baby

on SST on December 14, 1987. With Roback as its musical catalyst, Opal were a direct precursor to Mazzy Star musically—often featuring the same psychedelic guitar drones and similar hints of blues and folk that would later appear on Mazzy Star recordings. Meanwhile, Sandoval—who was in high school at the time—formed the folk music duo Going Home in the early 1980s with fellow student Sylvia Gomez, and played gigs with Sonic Youth and Minutemen.
                                                                             

Both were devoted followers of the Rain Parade, and after a 1983 concert by the band in the Los

Angeles area, Gomez entered the backstage area of the venue and gave Roback a copy of Going Home's demo tape, featuring Sandoval on vocals and Gomez on guitar. Upon hearing the tape, Roback offered to produce a still-unreleased album by the pair. When Smith left Opal under cloudy circumstances in the middle of a tour supporting the Jesus & Mary Chain, Sandoval was tapped as her replacement.

 

 

SHE HANGS BRIGHTLY   1990

                                                                                          

She Hangs Brightly was the first album by the dream pop band Mazzy Star,  after the demise of Opal. It

was released in May 1990 on Rough Trade and, although it was not an immediate commercial success, the album established the duo as a recurrent fixture on alternative rock radio, with lead single "Blue Flower" – a cover of the Slapp Happy track (Slapp Happy was a German/English avant-pop group, formed in Germany in 1972.) – peaking at No. 29 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album would go on to sell over 70,000 copies in the UK.
                      

The leadoff track "Halah" was also released as a single. It announces the band's trademark effect with haunting guitar work and lyrics, and Hope Sandoval's disengaged vocals. Roback's Robbie Krieger-inspired psychedelic blues slide guitar style can be heard on the song, "Free". "Ghost Highway" is another psychedelic rock track, with a fast rhythm. This song dates from the band's days as Opal and was initially slated to be the title track of Opal's second album. While not a commercial success, this album did establish Mazzy Star as a unique band with a unique sound.
                                                                

In a review for Rolling Stone, Gina Arnold praised She Hangs Brightly as being "coldly beautiful". AllMusic's Jason Ankeny described Hope Sandoval's vocals as "more sultry" than those of Opal's Kendra Smith and praised "Halah" and "Blue Flower" but criticized the album's lack of focus, calling

the remaining tunes "unmemorable". (Mazzy Star's debut, She Hangs Brightly, picks up where Opal's Happy Nightmare Baby left off; merely exchanging Kendra Smith's languorous vocals for the more sultry presence of Hope Sandoval, David Roback continues chasing the neo-psychedelic holy grail he's pursued since his days with the Rain Parade, albeit with mixed success here. After opening with a pair of standouts, the dreamy "Halah" and the garage-inspired "Blue Flower," the album quickly loses focus, and even the group's solid grasp of atmosphere and texture can't overcome the songs' distinctly unmemorable melodies.)
                                      

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana listed She Hangs Brightly in his top fifty albums of all time. In 2018, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 29 on its list of the 30 best dream pop albums.

The album cover is a shot of the interior of Hotel Tassel in Brussels.

TRAXS

 

01. Halah         3:16
02. Blue Flower  (Peter BlegvadAnthony Moore)  3:35
03. Ride It On         3:01
04. She Hangs Brightly         6:24
05. I'm Sailin'  (Minnie McCoy)    3:13
06. Give You My Lovin'  (Sylvia Gomez)    3:50
07. Be My Angel         3:17
08. Taste of Blood         5:36
09. Ghost Highway    (Roback)    3:28
10. Free     3:11
11. Before I Sleep     2:10

Total length:    40:28

MEMBERS

Hope Sandoval
David Roback
Sylvia Gomez
Keith Mitchell
Suki Ewers
William Cooper
Paul Olguin.

BLUE FLOWER  LYRICS

Waitin' for a sign from you
Waitin' for a signal to change
Have you forgotten what your love can do?
Is this the end?

Walkin' through the city
Your boots are high-hilled and are shinin' bright
The sun was sparklin' on the shaft of your knife
Flower in the morning rain
Dying in my hand

Was it all in vain?
Superstar in your own private movie
I wanted just a minor part
But I'm no fool
I know you're cool
I never really wanted your heart

You're the keeper of the key
Nothing seems to bring you down
It's not that cool when I'm around

Flower in the morning rain
Dying in my hand

Was it all in vain?
Superstar in your own bright movie
I wanted just a minor part
But I'm no fool
I know you're cool
I never really wanted your heart

MP3 @ 320 Size:  MB
Flac  Size:  MB

SEASONS OF YOUR DAY   2013

                                                                                      

(Mazzy Star is one of those rare bands whose very name has come to define a certain aesthetic. Many of us who make a living writing and talking about music are all probably guilty at some point of describing a new record as having a very “Mazzy Star” kind of vibe — i.e. anything pretty and dreamy

and druggy and gorgeously slow. If anything, it’s a compliment to the band that they have managed, over the course of 23 years, to carve out their own private and very woozy niche. Mazzy Star makes music that brings to mind hints of the folky Paisley Underground, soporific blues riffs, reverbed guitar lines that go one for days, and a voice — courtesy of Hope Sandoval — with the same sonic quality as opium smoke, rising and weaving through songs that always sound best when played in the middle of the night (or, for those of us of a certain age, perhaps during a college makeout session).
                                                           

It’s been 17 years since the duo last released an album (1996’s Among My Swan), but this month they will break their long silence with the release of Seasons of Your Day, an album that pretty much sounds exactly like Mazzy Star (in the most beautiful way possible). I contacted Sandoval and bandmate David

Roback via the world’s most complicated Skype scenario: Hope in Ireland, David in Norway, and myself in Brooklyn. Not surprisingly, given their reclusive nature and the famously reserved quality of their music, the two musicians might just be the unchattiest people I’ve ever tried to talk to. I don’t mind, though. Mazzy Star’s music has seen me (and a lot of people) through some dark and confusing (and also wonderful) times … and even if they aren’t all that psyched about explaining themselves, I’m just happy that they are back.) STEREOGUM
                                                                 

Seasons of Your Day is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Mazzy Star. It was released on September 23, 2013 by the band's own independent record label, Rhymes of An Hour. Their first record since the release of their third album Among My Swan in 1996, and the subsequent

dissolution of their contract with Capitol Records the following year, they continued recording in 1997 while without a record deal and worked sporadically until the completion of the album in September 2012. The album was recorded in several locations including California, London and Norway, and features contributions from most of the band's original members, including their late violinist Will Glenn, who died from cancer in 2001. The album also features Hope Sandoval's Warm Inventions partner Colm Ó Cíosóig, while the late Bert Jansch performs guitar on the song "Spoon".
                                                                          

Upon its release, Seasons of Your Day received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented its overall production and quality of songwriting. "Common Burn"/"Lay Myself Down"

was released as the lead single from the album on October 31, 2011 digitally, while a limited edition 7" vinyl followed on January 24, 2012. "California" was issued as the first proper single from the album on August 20, 2013. A double A-sided 7" vinyl of "Seasons of Your Day"/"Sparrow" was released through Rough Trade Records on November 4, 2013. The album was followed by a non-album single, "I'm Less Here" on Record Store Day 2014.
                                                                

The album charted at a career-high position of number 24 on the UK Albums Chart, while also peaking at number five on Billboard's Independent Albums Chart. The band promoted the album with a fourteen date tour of North America in November 2013.

TRAXS

                                                                                   

01. In the Kingdom    5:15
02. California    5:23
03. I've Gotta Stop    4:05
04. Does Someone Have Your Baby Now?    4:09
05. Common Burn    5:10
06. Seasons of Your Day    3:41
07. Lay Myself Down    4:32
08. Sparrow    4:05
09. Spoon    6:10
10. Flying Low    7:36

Total length:    50:05

MEMBERS

David Roback – guitar, keyboard, producer, engineer, mixing
Hope Sandoval – vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, harmonica, tambourine, producer, engineer, mixing
William Cooper – keyboard on "Lay Myself Down"
Suki Ewers – keyboard
Keith Mitchell – drums
Paul Mitchell – viola on "Seasons of Your Day"
Colm Ó Cíosóig – guitar, bass, keyboard, drums
Bert Jansch – guitar on "Spoon"
Stephen McCarthy – pedal steel guitar on "Lay Myself Down"
Paul Olguin – bass on "Lay Myself Down"

MP3 @ 320 Size:  MB
Flac  Size:  MB

Mazzy Star on URBAN ASPIRINES HERE 

On This Blog you can also find: The Dream Syndicate, Opal, The Rain Parade.

Mazzy Star : Ghost Highway Bootleg CD 2005

Ghost Highway serves up two 1994 portions of Mazzy Star recorded in the moment, one from a live show and one from a radio session. We get a nice mixture of favourites from 1993’s So Tonight That I Might See and early versions of tracks that would later surface on other albums. CD released by FM In Concert.

Hope Sandoval, David Roback, The Winter of ’94 and a year after the release of the sublime “So Tonight That I Might See”, Mazzy Star find themselves still touring and promoting the album, some of the songs featured here are from that album such as Into Dust, Bells Ring the title track and the hit single Fade Into You. Whilst songs like " Flowers in December " would turn up on the next album released a whole two years later. Four of the selections are from the critically acclaimed first album  " She Hangs Brightly " issued in 1990, including the Sylvia Gomez penned  " Give You My Lovin "  and the obscure German band  " Slapp Happy " cover of  " Blue Flower ".
Mazzy Star is best known for the song "Fade into You" which brought the band success in the mid-1990s and was the group's biggest mainstream hit, earning extensive exposure on MTV, VH1, and radio airplay.

Roback and Sandoval are the creative centre of the band, with Sandoval as lyricist and Roback as composer of the majority of the band's material.

HOPE SANDOVAL

Hope Sandoval (born June 24, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer for Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions. Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists, including  "Massive Attack", for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album "Heligoland", and "The Spoils" on the 2016 eponymous single.Sandoval performed with the band  " Opal " in the late 1980s a longside David Roback and long-time Roback collaborator Kendra Smith. After Smith's abrupt departure during a tour of the UK (hurling her guitar to the floor at the Hammersmith gig), Sandoval took over lead vocals. At the end of the tour, Roback and Sandoval began writing together and formed the alternative rock band Mazzy Star.

DAVID ROBACK

Roback was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended Palisades High School, graduating in 1975. He and his brother Stephen Roback, a bass guitarist, formed a band called the Unconscious, which also

included Susanna Hoffs, who would go on to become the lead singer of the all-girl band " The Bangles ".Roback was active in the Paisley Underground music scene in L.A. in the early to mid-1980s as the leader of the band  "Rain Parade" which was immensely popular on the L.A. club circuit. Shortly after the release of the band's first album "Emergency Third Rail Power Trip", in 1983, Roback left Rain Parade to join Rainy Day, a collaborative effort with a number of L.A. musicians in the Paisley Underground.
After releasing their self-titled album, Roback formed Opal (which was initially called "Clay Allison"), with vocalist/bassist Kendra Smith, formerly of "The Dream Syndicate".
After one EP and one full-length album Kendra Smith was replaced by Hope Sandoval but this lineup never released an album as "Opal".
Roback changed the name of the band to Mazzy Star in 1989.

Tracks:

1. Flowers In December
2. Ride It On 
3. Into Dust
4. Give You My Lovin’ (Sylvia Gomez)
5. Fade Into You
6. Halah
7. Ghost Highway ( David Roback)
8. Blue Flower 
9. Flowers In December
10.Bells Ring
11.Blue Flower (Peter Blegvad/ Anthony Moore)
12.Halah
13.So Tonight That I Might See

1-8 Recorded The Metro Chicago 12th November 1994
9-13 Recorded at KROQ Los Angeles 10th December 1994

"Flowers In December"
 

Before I let you down again
I just want to see you in your eyes
I would have taken everything out on you
I only thought you could understand

They say every man goes blind in his heart
And they say everybody steals somebody's heart away
And I've got nothing more to say about it
Nothing more than you would me

Send me your flowers of your december
Send me your dreams of your candy wine
I got just one thing I can't give you
Just one more thing of mine

They say every man goes blind in his heart
They say everybody steals somebody's heart away
And I've been wondering why you let me down
And I been taking it all for granted  

"Into Dust"
 


Still falling
Breathless and on again
Inside today
Beside me today
Around, broken in two
Till your eyes shed
Into dust
Like two strangers
Turning into dust
Till my hand shook
With the weight of fear

I could possibly be fading
Or have something more to gain
I could feel myself growing colder
I could feel myself under your fate
Under your fate

It was you
Breathless and torn
I could feel my eyes turning into dust
And two strangers
Turning into dust
Turning into dust

Label : FMIC – FMIC024
Format : CD, Album, Unofficial Release
Country : UK & Europe
Released : 18 May 2015
Genre : Rock
Style : Psychedelic Rock, Alternative Rock

FLAC  Size :  424 MB

OPAL on This Blog  Take it HERE
DREAM  SYNDICATE on This Blog HERE
MAZZY STAR on This Blog HERE