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OMEGA (featuring Jon Anderson)

from The Word is​.​.​. by HuDost & Steve Kilbey

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    This extremely limited edition instrumental disc originally was shipped as a deluxe edition with the IndieGogo fundraising campaign. A very limited number was printed and there are still a few left. We will sell them here and at shows until they're gone. It contains instrumental versions of most of the album songs as well as 4 non-album tracks.

    Track list:
    Lapsed Music (Non-album)
    Ostinato (Non-Album)
    OK (Omnipresent) (Instrumental)
    Austin Knocking (Instrumental)
    The Muse (Instrumental)
    Mocking Bird Temple (Instrumental)
    Love Everything (Instrumental)
    Once a Man Named David (Non-album)
    Devil's Jeopardy (Non-album)
    All of Us (Instrumental)
    OMEGA (Instrumental)

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about

So all of these liner notes really just lead up to explaining how this odd one-off happened. Steve had this long piece that he called ‘Song with Weird Bits’ He had a basic intro and outro and this reoccurring ascending bass line with a drum loop. It was very bare. His idea and ‘assignment’ to us was to create ‘hooky catchy weird song bits’ that only lasted long enough to sink the ear worm in and then to never return again. These were basically blank spaces in between the repeating ascending bass bits. So we set upon the task of writing and finding song fragments and musical ideas that we’d been working on. Some of them were iPhone recordings of little riffs or lyrical verse ideas that we often get while driving. After sifting through a lot of these we figured out which ones would work and where they fit well within the piece. The scaffolding was done and we had all the weird song bits inserted. I also souped up the intro and outro musically as ‘bookends’. At first we thought the ascending bass parts would just be these interesting non-lyrical instrumental sections, so we had Joe lay down pedal steel tracks, Melissa add cellos and I started layering tons of guitars, organs, synths and atmospheres.

At one point we had the thought of adding horns so we contacted our buddy Kai Welch (Abigail Washburn’s song-writing partner and brilliant multi-instrumentalist solo artist as well) and he recorded an entire horn section on the track! WHEW! This thing is BIG! There was ‘weird bit’ section toward the end that I wrote that still didn’t have any words and I felt it sounded a lot like YES. Moksha had recently added some backing vocals and harmonium to a couple of tracks for a Jon Anderson solo
project and he had told us “just send me music from time to time” as we’d
been speaking of collaborating more. We had already sent him 2-3 pieces with no response but I had the hit that he should hear this music. We sent it to Jon one morning and he wrote back that evening saying “Wow this is Wild! Let me sit with this for a bit and I’ll get back to you.” The next morning we had an email from him with a Dropbox link with 7 stacked vocal tracks with a waft of cosmic lyrics that could only come from him. It felt like Christmas! We were blown away. His only instruction at the time was “Sing along with me! This needs to sound like a big group of voices singing!” So we did.

We sent the track back to Steve who added vocals too and then began the deeper process of really arranging and editing and turning this into the epic it is. This is undoubtably the most ambitious track I’ve ever produced. Oz worked miracles in mixing it as well. It took days to really bring it into shape making each section it’s own universe yet keeping it sounding like one solid flowing movement. After days of mix tweaking we sent it to Jon and he had MORE ideas both mix wise and arrangement wise, so we added MORE and went back in and mixed it even deeper respecting deeply his creative input. Jon put a lot of love and attention into this track with us. It is truly a miraculous magical co-creation and we are honored to work with him.

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from The Word is​.​.​., released March 17, 2015

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HuDost has a new album that will be released November 19th. HuDost’s last album 'of Water + Mercy' received rave reviews and as an independent release reached #24 in the BILLBOARD SALES CHARTS for Folk/Americana also winning The Independent Music Award for Social Action Song. In the last year they also received two of the 'Best of Nashville 2020’ awards. ... more

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