Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Love This Morning in Rediscovery
Posted by Eric Grandy on Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM
This morning, for the first time in a long time, I put on Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens by Kelley Polar, and damn do I love that record! Kelley Polar is the avant disco alias of classically trained New Hampshire-based violist Michael Kelley. He records for the consistently quality Environ Records, both as Kelley Polar and with the Kelley Polar Quartet and as a player on many Metro Area releases. (He also records with the more traditional/less dance-floor oriented Apple Hill Chamber Players.) Like Metro Area, Kelley Polar's songs are marked by spare, straightforward nu-disco rhythms and tasteful touches of strings and synths. Unlike Metro Area, Kelley Polar Quartet also features Kelley's oddly arranged but perfectly agile and effervescent singing. The whole album is just gorgeous and groovy and pretty essential, but I'm currently really enjoying the (instrumental) "The Rooms in My House Have Many Parties," "Black Hole," and (from his following album, I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling, but still) "Entropy Reigns (in the Celestial City)," a live performance of which you can watch here:
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