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I AM A STRANGER HERE BELOW
(CD / vinyl, release December 2017)
After diving into an abyss of dark madness & desperation with his 2015/16 album "Eating Meatballs on a Blood-Stained Mattress in a Huggy Bear Motel" Germany based musician Dad Horse Ottn slips back into the light with a good tempered follow-up album entitled ”I am a Stranger Here Below."
Never one to see the bright without it’s darkness, life is no straight line of easy faith for the Dad Horse. It is a broken and twisted light which shadows every ray with darkness, as black as the walls of a giggling group therapy room in hell.
The work on these songs started at the same time as the recording of "Huggy Bear Motel" & continued in summer 2016 with Gregg Weiss from Tildon Krautz & other found souls.
About the songs:
1. That's the Day
A raunchy uptempo opener, typical Dad Horse banjo overlaid with masculine electric rock guitar. Lyricswise it is a bitter sweet account about Dad Horse being kicked out of the US in 2015. “One man‘s ceiling is another man‘s floor.”
2. I Know Your Name
This is a Gopsel song again, “I know where you‘re lying – in the middle of the sky.”
3. My Last Ride
Banjo bouncing ride through final questions: “There‘s an empty chair in heaven, there‘s an empty chair in hell, both they have my name on it & both might suit me well.”
4. You'll Lose a Good Thing (B. Lynn)
Uh, Dad Horse is singing kind of a Soul classic? Yes he can.
5. WSPD-Blues
Then the electric banjo rolls into the record like a Panzer storming battlements with the should be anthem of “World-Self-Pity-Day” if the UN would ever declare it.
6. My Rough & Rowdy Ways (J. Rodgers)
The yodeling German in the footseps of the yodeling cowboy – that kind you here in asylums on a “good” day.
7. Down the Mississippi
An S&M ballad. Poor Dad caught by a lady in purple as “tight as the rope around a guilty man‘s neck” and made subject to her sadistic desires.
8. Ich steig in die Bahn
Jolly song in German with reference to street or tram shootings.
9. Wicked Path of Sin (B. Monroe)
A heartbreaking duet with Gabi Swiatkowska from Tildon Krautz.
10. I am a Stranger Here Below
Lyrics for the title song provided by a 19th century hymn book. Surprisingly modern in it’s doubtful angst and Dad Horse melody.
A Sacred Flu Production w/ off label records & Fuego
Available:
https://www.dad-horse-experience.org/s-h-o-p/albums/stranger-here-below/
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