Mountainhood - America 2 or Nahuel Huapa, A Saga: The Intense Vibes of the Rainbow, A Tale of Transformation Of My Brother

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4...according to our Brian on Fri 30 Sep, 2011.

This feller baked my brain last time I attempted to review one of his collections of music. That was a pretty far-out record mind and here he indulges his free lo-fi folk persona. It works on many levels as he's obviously got music flowing through his veins so he simply does what the fuck he likes whether the results sound, sloppy deranged, discordant or plain acid-fried. Luckily they frequently sound totally lovely too in the way Jeffrey Lewis, early Beck, Woods, Beat Happening & Guided by Voices frequently blow your mind with simple, heavily emotive nuggets of shambling pleasure without seemingly even trying. The sixth track on the first disc is a total dream of fuzzy, fluttering psych-folk - spectral, rustic & magic-dust spangled, a real fragile gem that sounds like it's ingested the spirit of Donovan & Gong!! So, the singing is a bit wonky & so is the playing but this is a delight to listen to, although with two discs clocking in at almost two hours, this may be best served in smaller portions??

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New mammoth 2 disc set from Michael Curtis Hilde aka Mountainhood, following on from releases with Important, Reverb Worship and Blackest Rainbow.

Michael takes us on a lucid journey of far out lo fi folk over 2 discs and nearly 1 hour 50 minutes! This incredible album was recorded well over a year ago and has been in planning for nearly just as long! Ranging from the beautiful ("Have You Ever Wished") to the bizarre ("Tress Message (Nahuel In The Woods)") Michaels music is both emotionally exhausting and totally mind melting. A vast array of instrumentation is used to create a variety of moods and textures, mainly centred around Michael's unique and enchanting vocals, giving the album a strange sensation of late night camp fire psyche outs recorded onto tape and left for us to find decades later. This album is a wonderful documentation of Michael Curtis Hilde's Mountainhood project and it's overall sound and unique artistic vision, which is unlike anything else around at the moment.

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