ACOUSTIC LOUNGE FREAKS
The Acoustic Lounge Freaks are part of the London TRIP collective,
named The Horizontal Collective, on 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, Orel Mayor.
The label embraces the 1990s genre of Trip Hop, mainly through past connections with the band Baby Fox,
but also through the inclusive sponge like nature of the genre.
The term TRIP originated in the 1990s in the uk, and first appeared in the press in June 1994, Andy Pemberton writing at the time for the magazine “Mixmag”.
It is a fusion of styles, it can be highly experimental, dubby, jazzy, spoken word, bizarre noises, slow beats that give the listener the impression they are on a musical Trip.
Often featuring melancholic vocals, more often female than male with old school scratching, slow heavy drum sounds, swathes of ambient sounds and manipulated samples.
