“What is luxury?” a man asks you in a darkened room.
Not knowing where you are, how you got there or what to say back, you try not to panic and stay silent.
He calmly questions you, “Is it Time? Comfort? Possessions?”
Standing still, the smell of a smokey French scenario of the sixties approaches you and as it does it changes – it evolves – you feel his presence coming closer. Suddenly your throat begins to tighten as you feel your torso cave ever so gently forward.
“Spread out your fingers,” the man then says, and as you do you feel a warm pressure from above push them down below, until you feel what can be best described as cool polished bones.
Sounds emerge as you make contact. Consequently, vibrations run through your veins, reverberating and massaging your tense disposition until you surrender into a relaxed buttery sentiment.
He then whispers his answer in your ear, “Connection is a luxury. Music is a necessity.”
Next thing you know you find yourself waking up in the same room, now lit. You can’t help but ponder last night’s movement – while tied to a gilded baby grand piano.
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Hilotrons front man Mike Dubue is an Ottawa based singer/songwriter who possesses the elicit ability of communicating the full meaning of a lyric. His very breathing and vocal quivering inject real life into his thoughts and words and have been arranged within the self limitations of his latest album out on Kelp Records titled, ‘At Least There’s Commotion’. Arranged in the style of an old black and white film with a magical touch of evolution, the topic of the human condition unfolds and is explored then sustained; with and without a golden pedal. Vintage synth sounds and traditional keys underscore the duality between reality and consciousness. Love and heartbreak.
Dyed-in-the-wool fans of Talking Heads will salivate like wolves for the off-beat thrusting womps of Venus At Your Back Door, She Knows Something About My Condition (Part2) and Modern Way Woman. But not so fast, Danger World and Emergency featuring Paul Hogan’s sexy electric guitar and Dubue’s luring experimental sound bites, break ‘that song reminds me of’ barriers for brilliant invention. Break beats aside, every song on the album will find it’s way into your heart chakra; first slithering up your backbone and then penetrating deep into your soul like real charmers. Before you know it you’ll be craving Dubue’s LIVE tunedalini.
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