Music With Meaning 7

Maybe You're Sleeping

Home Recording Project is like nothing you’ve heard before. At least consciously. Maybe in some of your more mellow, ocean-side dreams the Home Recording Project was playing in the background, but for the wide awake their music makes sleeping seem like an exploration.

The Home Recording Project has been juxtaposing different forms of indie, experimental and down tempo for five years now and the current alliance seems to have jelled into intuitive, hazy entity. The band originally formed not in conjunction with a scene but with a disappointment toward the current punk and math rock scenes. What has manifest itself is a low-lying sound that they themselves describe as, “sleep deprivation and tears....lots and lots of tears.” That’s not to say that the music is depressing or at least it doesn’t have to be. It is introspective, mesmerizing, hallucinogenic.

The Home Recording Project is an eclectic taste. They use their instruments for their art, because they view their music as art. They also use spaces to make their art. Shortly after they formed, the group had moved into a house together and began collecting recording equipment to document their sound. In the process of recording, the natural ambiance of the house and the neighborhood all seeped into the recording process and in fact helped spawn the name Home Recording Project.

The summer looks to be a busy one for the band. Besides MWM7, they have a tour heading West, are deliberately searching for record distribution and also have some friendly collaborations in the works.

This Friday at the South Union Arts Building Home Recording Project will bring their slow, swimming swish to you. As easy as it may be to think so, remember, this is not a dream, this is not a dream.

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