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Wild Honey - Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug (2009)

The first thing you hear on Wild Honey’s debut album, “Epic Handshakes And A Bear Hug”, is a “uhuhuuu”, then a voice, then some handclaps… and bit by bit, everything starts to fit in it’s place at the right time: a trumpet and a ukelele, a keyboard, whistles…

To record this album, Guillermo had to move all the furniture in his house, in order to get some space to place microphones, instruments and cables, to have everything handy and out of the way at the same time. All the tracks were recorded there and all the records were put on their sleeves there as well, with the same enthusiasm someone fastens with staples the pages of a fanzine.

The album was mixed in seven days at “Alex The Great”, Brad Jones’ Studio in Nashville. Since day one Brad and Guillermo found some common ground and made a fruitful connection. The result is a beautiful album in which you can recognize his love for music and distant echoes from Brill Building, the Zombies, early Scott Walker, the soundtracks of the Sherman Brothers for Disney, Michel Legrand, Curt Boettcher, bubblegum pop, and all the sentimental and cheerful american music from the first half of the 20th Century to Sufjan Stevens and Jens Lekman. Pop with carefully crafted arrangements that makes every song special in a different way. “Epic Handshakes and a bear hug” is a handful of beautiful songs to discover and cherish.

The album is sold on one only format, a vinyl (180gr red vinyl) that comes with a cd version here:
www.thisiswildhoney.com

released 29 October 2009
- Recorded and produced by Guillermo Farré at Sunshine (Madrid)
- Mixed by Brad Jones at Alex The Great (Nashville)
- Mastered by Jim DeMain at Yes Master (Nashville)
- Cover Art: Grande Graphix

Immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

Download for Free here...wildhoney.bandcamp

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Special Thank for Share @bandcamp

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I am not going to say much, but I just had to make a post about this today. WILD HONEY’s debut album is now available for free download on his Bandcamp-page, where you can also get his wonderful EP from last year, also this for free. I’ve had the chance to listen to this album for almost a week, and it has become a favourite of my playlist.

I know very little about Wild Honey, other than they arrear to be Spanish, as after a quick google I came up with what appears to be their website and it’s all in Spanish. What I do know is that ‘Hal Blaine’s Beat’ is 1 minute 40 seconds of pure pop gorgeousness and a natty tribute to one of the finest drummers known to humanity. The title of the song and the band name will give you a clue as to where they’re coming from. It appears there will be a free download for their album ‘Epic Handshakes and A Bear Hug’ (groovy title) at the same Bandcamp site this coming thursday if my rusty spanish is correct.

mp3 – Wild Honey – ‘Hal Blaine’s Beat’