Honeyroot

A collaboration between veteran producer/guitarist/DJ Keith Lowndes and long-time Heaven 17 vocalist Glenn Gregory (who’s also a producer/composer), the London-based Honeyroot was one of the kinder, gentler acts to emerge in the United kingdom electronica picture in the first 2000s. Honeyroot can be an suitable name for Gregory and Lowndes’ task since there is, in fact, a whole lot of honey within their sound. As opposed to the harsher, even more forceful and abrasive varieties of electronica — techno, for instance — Honeyroot mementos an extremely dreamy and ethereal method of electronic membership/dance music. While techno could be just as confrontational and in-your-face as loss of life steel, gangsta rap, hardcore or free of charge jazz, Honeyroot’s downtempo, chillout and ambient recordings aren’t only simple and melodic — they’re downright lush. Honeyroot’s function is certainly rhythmic and soulful, but often in a lushly atmospheric method. Their musical traditions ranges from Spirit II Spirit and Sade to Julee Luxury cruise, and their sensuous materials inspires evaluations to Dimitri From Paris, Russ Gabriel, Billy Paul Williams, Cosmic Community and P’taah (amongst others). Even though Honeyroot project didn’t get underway before 21st hundred years, Gregory and Lowndes had been area of the English music scene a long time before that. Gregory’s participation with synthesizer-friendly music dates back to 1980, when techno-popsters Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh recruited him for the English Electric Basis (an offshoot from the Human being Little league, who are greatest remembered because of their 1982 smash “NOT Wish Me”). In 1981, Ware and Marsh employed Gregory (a previous photographer they fulfilled in Sheffield, Britain) because the lead vocalist for Heaven 17; once the United kingdom Electric Foundation went out of vapor around 1983, Heaven 17 became Ware and Marsh’s primary concentrate — which supposed a whole lot of performing for Gregory. Heaven 17 acquired several well-known strikes within the U.K., including “Crushed with the Tires of Sector,” “Arrive Live With Me,” “Enticement” and “I WANT TO Move.” But with the past due ’80s, their reputation had reduced — and in 1988, the group officially split up. But following a six-year lack, Heaven 17 returned jointly in 1996 — a minimum of on the part-time basis. Ware and Marsh had been pleased to rehire Gregory, who was simply still Heaven 17’s business lead vocalist in 2004. Lowndes, on the other hand, has a lengthy history being a membership DJ and can be known for playing electric guitar within a ’90s lineup of the brand new wave/dance-pop clothing ABC (who have been quite popular within the early- to middle- ’80s and appreciated their talk about of major strikes within their heyday). Audio Echo Area, Lowndes and Gregory’s initial full-length record as Honeyroot, premiered within the U.K. and Australia in 2003; after originally for sale in THE UNITED STATES just as an transfer, Audio Echo Location premiered in america by ” NEW WORLD ” Music in 2004. Rather than offering Gregory on most of Honeyroot’s vocal materials, Lowndes and Gregory possess opted to hire different vocalists on different tunes; those vocalists possess included Billie Hogdrey, Angie Dark brown, Kerry Shaw and Lindsay Sharp.