Home Is Where You Hang Yourself

Home Is Where You Hang Yourself Artist: Her Space Holiday
Label: Tiger Style
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 686806000729
EAN: 0686806000729
ASIN: B00004T92Q


Release Date: 2000-06-20

Home Is Where You Hang Yourself


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Tracks:

  1. Home Is Where You Hang Yourself
  2. Snakecharmer
  3. Through The Eyes Of A Child
  4. A Matter Of Trust
  5. The Doctor And The DJ
  6. Sleeping Pills
  7. Famous To Me
  8. Can You Blame Me?
  9. Sugar Water
  10. Homecoming

Tracks:

  1. Misery Loves Company (Space Is Easy Mix)
  2. Godspeed (Freedom Fighter's Mix) - Aspera Ad Astra
  3. Contrast And Compare (Making Words Work Mix) - Bright Eyes
  4. Sounds Just Like An Ocean (Ocean Floored Mix) - Novasonic Down Hyperspace
  5. Smile Decoy (To Mars And Back Mix) - Micromars
  6. Singing Arc Lamp (Natural Satellites Mix) - Mahogany
  7. And Things Are Mostly Ghosts (Version Overdose Mix) - Duster
  8. Famous To Me (Hurtful Kid Mix)

Amazon.com

Although the breathtaking maturity and sonic scope of Home Is Where You Hang Yourself may lead listeners to believe otherwise, Her Space Holiday is actually just one musician, Mark Bianchi, who has been toiling away in San Mateo, California, creating minimalist pop gems with sparsely layered, beautifully fragile guitar parts. Supposedly, Bianchi, after years of frustration from playing in bands, decided to start recording alone when he stumbled upon a four-track. Bianchi's proficiency with multitracking is manifest in the ingenious way he lays simple guitar parts upon each other, the way he double tracks his own vocal harmonies, and the way he splices in seemingly incongruent drum samples and keyboards to create one gracefully unified effect. Home Is Where You Hang Yourself is made up of two discs, the first focusing on Bianchi's distinct pop songs and the second featuring Bianchi's own mixes using other artists' songs, including several artists who appear on Bianchi's own label, Audio Information Phenomena Records. On the first disc, Bianchi's influences are evident, if not obvious, from the Beck-ish feel of "The Doctor and the DJ" to the lazy front-porch guitar sound of Radar Bros. on "A Matter of Trust" to the sparse economy and dynamics of Yo La Tengo on "Snakecharmer" and "Can You Blame Me". Its clear, however, that for all these similarities, Bianchi is on to something that he can honestly call his own. He seems to have stumbled upon his own sound on his lonesome, cut off from the mainstream, like a mad scientist in a remote laboratory creating new life forms by splicing divergent genes or a kid blowing up preconceived pop notions with his chemistry set. The second disc of remixes is not nearly as compelling as Bianchi's original songs (for starters, Bianchi's guitars are nowhere to be found), but it is interesting to hear the inventive ways he tweaks these tunes. Besides, the first disc alone is worth the price of admission. <I>--Paul Ducey</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Hallelujah for this........2001-06-28

This record is a wonderful soundtrack for dimly lit, insomnia-laden late nights with a book. Enough depth to listen intently, but marvelous as dreamy, sweetly melancholy background music as well. A great synthesis of beats and acoustics, rich textures and vivid singer-songwriterly songs. Hurrah for Her Space Holiday.

4 out of 5 stars Her Space Holiday--A Secret that Should be Revealed!.......2000-10-02

OK at first you listen to this album and you're like, "Hmmm, pretty good but maybe a little boring." Then you listen to it again, and you're change your mind! "What was I thinking??" Mark Bianchi, who is ALL BY HIMSELF, Her Space Holiday, brings such a unique talent to this recording. How does he do it? Well, he has a knack for knowing how to overlap sounds so that songs remain interesting. The understated guitars sound great with the dreamy, spacey, electronic sounds and the soft vocals. His lyrics tend to be on the emotional and sad side, but they leave you really "into" the music. (the best kind!...that's why Her Space Holiday was the perfect opening band for Bright Eyes.) My favorite track has to be "Sleeping Pills," because it is his most up-beat and catchy song...plus I'm an insomniac so it's my theme song. But his remake of Bright Eyes' "Compare and Contrast" adds a unique flare with it's artsy, floaty instrumentals. Mmmmmm, soooo good. You have to go with this one. Plus, it's TWO discs for the price of one!

5 out of 5 stars Floatie, Dreamy, Spiritual and Powerful.......2000-07-14

On a fluke I stumbled into a skateboard shop in San Mateo and instantly my ears had the musical equivelent of Divine Enlightment...reminiscent of the spacey Verve or Chemical Brothers tunes combined with the melancholic & haunting sounds of Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star-where are you?) but, with an individualized/personal core. I've since purchased five more to give to friends...nice to see a home-boy make good!This is a solid "Buy".

4 out of 5 stars Surprise!.......2000-06-27

At first, I didn't know exactly what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised when I started to listen to this CD. Excellent!

4 out of 5 stars

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