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Sanguine Hum: What We Ask Is Where We Begin - The Songs for Days Sessions

by John Kelman
April 2, 2016

Few groups in the history of music can be credited with having come up with something as wonderfully absurd (yet, somehow, totally making sense) as Sanguine Hum. On its last album, the two-CD concept album Now We Have Light (Esoteric Antenna, 2014), the group told the story of a Dystopian future where our hero, Don (just Don), uncovers the “Buttered Cat Theory of Perpetual Energy" (if you want to know what that is, you'll have to read the review).

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Sanguine Hum: Now We Have Light

by John Kelman
February 20, 2015

Sometimes things take a long time to gestate in the minds of musicians, but Sanguine Hum may well be eligible for entry in the Guinness Book of World Records-- if there was such a category (and if there isn't, perhaps now there should be)--for Longest Time to Bring a Musical Concept to Fruition. OK, it's a clunky name and someone at Guinness will have to do better, but with the double-disc concept album Now We Have Light, Sanguine Hum has ...