I’m not an “outdoors” guy. I don’t have to be. The arts & entertainment universe has me covered. It orbits around me. It shows me the most dazzling visions. It sublimates and abstracts nature into sensory experiences that are, I guess, “better than the real thing.”
Case in point: SPUNK’s “Hepatica Nobilis,” from their garden variety full-length, Adventura Botanica.
Will I ever see hepatica, a symbol of the budding optimism of Spring, dot the winter-worn earth with its vivid pink and blue sepals as the Sun’s rays nourish my bones with vitamin D and warmth? Unlikely. No matter, for SPUNK has substituted natural nourishment and vivid sepals with a sonic supplement that has been bathed in natural light. The affirmative “Hepatica Nobilis” emanates peace at a leisurely pace. It leans over and gives light kisses on a day off laying somewhere in some exotic garden that I will never visit in the flesh. “And our souls were clean / And the grass did grow.” So sang Van Morrison, and so sings SPUNK, at a different pace, in their own words.
• SPUNK: https://sites.google.com/site/rcd2086/home
• Rune Grammofon: http://runegrammofon.com
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