ACOUSTIC LOUNGE FREAKS
The Acoustic Lounge Freaks are part of Horizontal Records, which has the fundamental ethos of improvisaton at its heart.
Led by guitarist Nicholas Chamberlain Hunt, and singer Christine Ann Leach.
The other Horizontal Collective members on the Acoustic Lounge Freaks projects include; Gavin Hans Jack, Arthur W Presser,
Dwight Clarke, Tommy Owen, Michael Levison, Tom Burton, Yannick Aellen, Alan McGuire, Dan Spanner,
Steve Wellington, Ze Zook, Rob Mason, Nina Perry, Una Murphy, Lawrence Henderson, Damien Dimitricopolous,
Gavin Alexander, Andrew Stock, Angus MaCrae, Alex Forster, David Mayer.
The label embraces the 1990s genre of Trip.
The term TRIP first appeared in the UK press in June 1994, Andy Pemberton writing at the time for the magazine “Mixmag”.
His definition: "It is a fusion of styles, it can be highly experimental, dubby, jazzy, spoken word, bizarre noises,
slow beats, often featuring melancholic vocals, more often female than male with old school scratching, slow heavy drum sounds,
swathes of ambient sounds and manipulated samples that give the listener the impression they are on a musical Trip". A definition that perfectly describes the Acoustic Lounge Freaks.
