backwards recordings and surrealistic imagery
What seemed like otherworldly music to me two decades ago now seems like the norm
The current LP includes one of his rare albums that could fit within the standard formula of "jazz star 1 meets jazz star 2"
The songs alternate between extended ethereal instrumental excursions
Flowertown - Half Yesterday purple mountains backwards recordings and surrealistic imageryFrom a deckhand on a container ship idling in the bay, an excitable beachgoer, or a rubbernecker passing through an intersection: its as if youre floating around the city, people watching through a soft focus lens. Flowertown, the San Francisco duo of Karina Gill and Mike Ramos, return with the dreamy, temperate, Half Yesterday. Flowertowns previous album, Time Trials, focused on the slowing down of time, shutdowns, and a somber look at our day to day