The 30-track collection November immerses listeners in process, allowing one to follow along as Carolina Chauffe jots down musical notes and sketches, some of them to be developed later, others not. We wrote about Hemlock’s 444 LP not too long ago, a sort of greatest hits constructed out of Chauffe’s daily songwriting devotion, but appreciate the diversions and half-successes and byways of this collection. Some days yield gemlike beauties, others not, but it is all about the journey.
Category: Hemlock
Hemlock :: 444
Carolina Chauffe has written a song-a-day for one month out of each year for the past six years. It’s the kind of discipline that would force an artist to live in the moment, to not think too hard whether any particular tune was good enough, to capture an effervescent flow of ideas and images and melodic progressions that might otherwise get away. Their latest album, 444, compiles the best of these phone-recorded compositions and the fresh, lively aura that surrounds songs that come unmediated out of the inspirational ether.