laudanum by deverde greene

"...hymns of a very different sort were in my mind...i was conscious of feeling nothing but the mere sense of being alive, & if the house had been burning, would have thought it too much of an effort to rise..."

-- confessions of a young lady laudanum drinker (1889)


laudanum is a psychedelic fever dream of color & texture.

anchored by tight grooves & complex rhythms, & brimming with samples plundered & juxtaposed in vibrant aural collages, deverde’s latest collection is more purely electronic and beat-driven than any of their previous work.

beginning in the murky, intermittently euphoric title track, laudanum shape-shifts into the driving new age spiritualism of 'outta the sky' & then transmogrifies into the funky new wave of 'the toothbrush song' all before emerging into the electro-pastoral of 'primaverde.'

But don’t let the danceability of these trax fool you. within the shell of each piece resides secret messages; transcendental codes; antique transmissions; references to obscure horticultural practices; elizabethan tune-smithery; cartoon endorsements for maintaining oral hygiene.

in short, it’s classic deverde.

on laudanum, deverde is rejoined by regular collaborator patrick fadely whose guitar deverde samples on the eponymous track and whose percussion crackles on the pulsing left field antics of "the toothbrush song."

monochromanically yours