Harrowingly lonely at times, this gap in Hurtado’s life is a struggle conveyed in specific terms with universal implications. At some point we all have been similarly afflicted.
Rookie physical release by Brandon Hurtado of Richmond, Virginia, who already has a long string of works dangling on Bandcamp (and a couple of subsequent cassettes). Handmade “with love” but the fruit of stress and anxiety, Hurtado was between homes and separated from his worldly possessions during the period of composition. As an act of countering that ennervating state of affairs, he constructed a home of hope out of sound.
As in zoomorphic Chinese decor, Bonfires for Nobody features both dragon and phoenix, a balanced wedding of feminine and masculine, lilting ambient, guitar interlooping with a brook and stars winking gauzily, as well as frayed and overtone drone testing the limits of a small loudspeaker, broadcast Christ-talk playing for no one, a forest empty but for the wind. Harrowingly lonely at times, this gap in Hurtado’s life is a struggle conveyed in specific terms with universal implications. At some point we all have been similarly afflicted.
Bonfires for Nobody is available on Bandcamp.
