John Lee Spider
Rosas Danst Rosas
The slice of life songwriting largely remains here while the recording here seems to take a step from kitchen-sink clatter towards something a little slicker but still homely – perhaps the lounge room
something about this rethink makes me realise how they were also great songwriters
L'ocelle Mare - Sans Chemin LP xx2021 John Lee SpiderA ritornello that awakens, unfolds, disappears, resurfaces, transforms, forgets itself, awakens again. A ritornello in folds and hollows, which gives us something to see as well as to listen, a theatre of acoustic shadows where each timbre, each rhythm, each modulation, is born from a meticulously refined gesture. I dont write music, its an assemblage of gestural memories, says Thomas Bonvalet. Gestures found, accidentally or not, through long