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Artist:	DROWSY
Title:	Growing Green
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FAT 034CD

"Entirely the work of Mauri Heikkinen, a 22 year-old singer / songwriter from the village of Joutseno in Finland. Rather than a perfect-fidelity recording homogeneously captured in the studio, Growing Green compiles together fourteen tracks recorded at home at various stages over the past three years in correspondence with FatCat, showcasing the strength and breadth of Mauri's unique and undeniable talent and some great, beautifully played songs. The recordings readily bare their rough edges (distortions, mispronunciations, the audibility of drawn breath or other sounds in the room), cumulatively resulting in a warm, honest and highly intimate album. Despite recalling singer songwriters such as Smog, Syd Barrett, Plush or Robert Wyatt, and an apparent leaning towards late '60s acid folk, Drowsy's music is simultaneously fresh and unique. Anchored in his own reality and rural / geographical isolation, his writing makes no attempt to grab at the coat-tails of the current folk-hipster-zeitgeist. By turns downered, laden with ennui, yearning and frequently permeated by a surreal (dark) humour, Mauri's is a kind of modern rural cosmology that alludes not just to the countryside and its seasonal cycles, but also to black holes, star stations and the minutae of everyday life."

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