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Amplifying Host

Richard Youngs  

Amplifying Host

JAG199
Released: July 19, 2011

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  1. Furrows Again
  2. Too Strong for the Power
  3. Tessellations
  4. Holding onto the Sea
  5. A Hole in the Earth
  6. This is the Music
Amplifying Host finds Richard Youngs wandering the guitar desert somewhere between Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas score and Neil Young’s work on Dead Man. Yet, the randomly determined chord movements and Youngs’ stretched-out vocal passes across the record are, perhaps, more akin to Jandek’s Six And Six — here, removed from its gauze and dipped in a dark gold. When Youngs bends strings in this anglo-americana vision, it’s like he’s bending spoons. For more than 20 years, the UK’s Richard Youngs has been at the forefront of progressive minimalism, through solo home recording projects and collaborations with the likes of Simon Wickham-Smith and Makoto Kawabata (of Acid Mothers Temple). Leaving a very human fingerprint on even the most far-reaching experimentations, Youngs has built an extensive, intriguing catalogue that just begs one to go deep.Youngs is joined on Amplifying Host by Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon and Naomi), whose subtle, free-form drums sizzle and scatter around Youngs’ lunar dust bowl compositions.

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