Story Teller - Blood On The Fairway #5
Story Teller is the long running project of Bruce McClure and Bjørn Hatleskog. Blood On The Fairway is their fifth release under the project name. A full dive into into perceptive aberrance trough desciptive poetry and tailored music. There is so much thought and content in just one selection, then bigger, a complete composition and finally the four other preceding releases for the Story Teller project.
Blood On The Fairway, the title track is a homage to the beautiful game of golf and a pristine California course. The story begins like any other day, a morning group of enthusiast gathering to drive balls down manicured tracts of land. Unknown to them, the land is soon to explode issuing an onslaught of grim Armageddon fashioned chaos. After the poeticized description of the earth opening up to swallow life above and heads exploding behind windscreens, Story Teller gets a little groovy. Melody being an excellent listening ear hold on a rather deep bevy of considered words. Finding rhythm to drive these words is nothing new for Bruce McClure and Bjørn Hatleskog. As example, listen to the second track Q's Tongue, the verses of mayhem and carnage are fused with a tribal drum beat from start to finish. Straight after, Scorched Wasteland takes stage with a soulful fifties flare. Listening to most of the poetry within this composition is like a kaleidoscope of thought, perfectly described in the moment but eventually the constant turning changes the recognition of the start from the finish. Only students and scholars are able to draw the tangents. The sounds and music make the selections by Story Teller just a bit easier to digest. Like a glass of water while eating a plate full of diamonds. Gorgeous verbal facets in a soup of melodic nostalgic warmth.
Released by Adaadat in an edition of one hundred cassettes. You can purchase a cassette straight from their website here. The earlier Story Time releases are available as well as plenty of other sounds to explore. Such a great project and composition. I wish i had a tenth of the ability to write and compose as well as Bruce McClure and Bjørn Hatleskog.
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