"Coleman’s sweet, sweet voice is treated as a delicate instrument by Olive, fragments and shavings of it nestling alongside his soft, rootsy bass, dub keyboards and snakey synth.
Gregor Asch (aka DJ Olive) is one of this generation’s true big-city renaissance men: turntablist, producer and remixer (sometimes as “The Audio Janitor”); one of the central figures of the illbient moment as one-third of We ™; continuer and curator of its spirit and legacy (referred to in-house as “roof music”) with the foundation of The Agriculture label; collaborator on landmark hybrid jazz albums by Uri Caine; installation builder (including Whitney and Venice biennials); and molder of cumulous ambient soundscapes, particularly of note the trilogy Buoy, Sleep and Triage on Room 40).
Olive opens the acronymious THWIS by revisiting the latter with “Triage Redux,” setting the stage for a long, low-key float down Yellow Brick Road, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He introduces vocalist Honeychild Coleman with a light skank on “Your Home,” immediately putting her in a familiar context, at least for this reviewer, whose only previous encounter with the lady was on illbient-era colleague Badawi’s absolutely essential Bedouin Sound System.
Though she doesn’t sing a standard verse-chorus type song until the very end, Coleman’s sweet, sweet voice is treated as a delicate instrument by Olive, fragments and shavings of it nestling alongside his soft, rootsy bass, dub keyboards and snakey synth. Both beatworthy and braintickling, THWIS dovetails perfectly with Bodega, his most recent solo album. Olive writes that the record was a long time in the making, in quest of a coherence “that I feel expresses the essence and vibe I was after.” It was certainly worth the wait, because THWIS is another milepost in a twisty windy career path dotted with them."
igloomag.com/reviews/dj-olive-feat-honeychild-coleman-thwis-the-agriculture
released January 1, 2013
Listen to track preview at:
djolive.bandcamp.com/album/thwis
1.Triage Redux 02:42
2.Turn the Table 03:23
3.Side by Each 04:04
4.Your Home 05:31
5.Grope 03:45
6.Bamboon 05:04
7.Kokanee's Drop 04:11
8.In A Whale's Eye 05:06
9.Meet The Rising Sun 05:20
10.Song That Knows Your Name 04:38
11.Unicorn Bass 04:26
12.Refrain 04:56
produced by gregor asch for the Agriculture 2011
all songs written by gregor asch THE AGRICULTURE ASCAP ®©2012
except: YOUR HOME, KOKANEE’S DROP and REFRAIN written by
carolyn coleman & gregor asch FREJOLA NEGRA MUSIC ASCAP ®©2012 and THE AGRICULTURE ASCAP ®©2012.
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LINER NOTES:
thanks brooklyn
thanks vija & roux for putting up with me through the billion different versions
carolyn honeychild coleman for being so patient with this project
james for all the good vibes and laughs
bernardo for letting me use your old vintage sm10
daveq & dubwar & the love sound system
françois k, erica & the deep space sound system
bryan & seza & the bunker massiv
3:33am noodletown salt baked squid
dennis for all the showers & pasta get away from 1205
kootenay coop radio. jay, terry, zoe,
john, deb, and all the cjly members who not only
put up with me while i worked on thwis nights
in studio c, but also made me feel at home
jim for being jim and jokes for being medicine
garth for sharing your "no wasted moves"
clay by way of roux for coming up with naming the record thwis
mum
Ignacio & stefanini for the art & design of thwis
thanks sefano for the photo's for press
stefanogiovannini.com
credits
released May 11, 2015
recorded for The Agriculture at Skin Tone Riddles Brooklyn NY 2009-2011
written & mixed at Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY Studio C and Revolution Audio, Nelson B.C. 2011.
mastering: mixture151 / xopher davidson
