MP3 Kevin Hume - The Truth About Ants and Aphids

Orchestral folk-pop

12 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, POP: Folky Pop



Details:
The Truth About Ants and Aphids is the latest CD by New Mexico based musician Kevin Hume. Written and recorded over several years, Ants and Aphids is a 12 song, 4 part song cycle rooted in the folk-pop tradition, prominently featuring arrangements for strings, woodwinds, and brass instruments. Carrying on in the same vein as his previous releases (which were released under the pseudonym Black Spartacus), The Truth About Ants and Aphids was conceived as a unified work, subdivided into 4 suites, with songs which relate to one another both harmonically and thematically.
The influences and styles of music on Ants and Aphids vary widely. There is the upbeat vocal pop of "Towns Where We Live" and "The Girl from Falling Water", the elegant chamber-folk of "Glacier Bay" and the title track, and the classically influenced "Yeoman's Farewell" and "The Fauve".
While performed and recorded mostly by himself, Kevin Hume's The Truth About Ants and Aphids is also graced with the presence of 12 very fine classical, folk, and jazz musicians, giving the album a lush, expansive sound. The added instrumentation also serves to give greater clarity to the sometimes complex arrangements, while never distracting from acoustic guitar and vocal which are most often at the heart of the songs.