Johnny Coley - Mister Sweet Whisper (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER
Johnny Coley - Mister Sweet Whisper (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER
LP comes with a 4-page booklet featuring artwork and writing by Johnny. Pressed in black vinyl.
Transcendental poetry meets Southern Nightmare Jazz on the third album by Alabama-based artist Johnny Coley. Mister Sweet Whisper is the meeting of poet & artist Johnny Coley and the band Worst Spills, led by guitarist & arranger Joel Nelson. (Imagine “King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown,” but more like “William Burroughs Meets Lounge Lizards in Ghost Swamp”). Joined by vibraphone player and recordist of the group, Jasper Lee, Mister Sweet Whisper centers Coley as a gifted writer and unique elder voice, supported by an eclectic cast of friends & collaborators. Tapping into French surrealism and transgressive American poets such as John Ashbery, the songs in Mister Sweet Whisper evolve, cinema-like, with Coley as an uninhibited, almost mystical, narrator. Textural, jazz-like playing complements Coley’s decadent landscapes, which glide by like cigarette-inspired invocations. Echoing, and at times, dissonant notes of saxophone, crystalline tones of vibraphone, and jagged guitar arrangements punctuate Coley’s dreamlike visions, populated by ballet dancers, haunting nightclubs, and ghostly car drivers. Wistful and expansive, the songs in Mister Sweet Whisper speak of Coley’s talent and natural ability to channel his poetic world into songs. A remarkable follow-up to Coley’s first two albums Antique Sadness, from 2021, and Landscape Man, from 2022—which were praised as “exquisitely haunting, sublime, hilarious” and falling “somewhere between Robert Ashley, David Wojnarowicz, and Intersystems,” Mister Sweet Whisper arrives in full form: unpredictable and brilliant.
Side A. 1. They’re Dreaming Me 2. Club Roma 3. Flesh Vehicle. Side B. 4. That Knock At The Door 5. Hitchhikin’ 6. Dancin’ Like An Assasin
SKU:MRI212LP
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