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Lo primero que suena en “Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug”, el disco de debut de Wild Honey, es un “uhuhuuu”, la voz de Guillermo, unas palmas… todo va entrando y saliendo poco a poco: trompeta y ukelele, teclado, silbidos. Sin empujar, cada elemento en su sitio. Ni más ni menos.

Para grabar “Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug” Guillermo tuvo que apartar muebles de su casa, buscando espacios donde acumular micrófonos, instrumentos y cables, para tenerlos a mano y a la vez no molestasen demasiado. Todas las pistas se grabaron allí y, con una mudanza de por medio, los discos se han encartado también en su casa con el mismo espíritu con el que se grapan las páginas de un fanzine.

El disco se mezcló en siete días, en el estudio de Brad Jones, “Alex The Great” en Nashville. El resultado es un disco que rezuma amor por la música. Se pueden escuchar ecos del Brill Building, The Zombies, el primer Scott Walker, las bandas sonoras de Sherman Brothers para Disney, Michel Legrand, Curt Boettcher, música Bubblegum, toda la línea que va de la música sentimental y alegre de la América de primera mitad del siglo XX a un Sufjan Stevens de bolsillo o Jens Lekman con mirada y voz inocentes. Pop arreglado que pretende ser bonito y lo es, canciones redondas, arreglos cuidados y homenajes.

El disco se puede adquirir en un único formato: LP (vinilo rojo 180gr) que viene acompañado por la versión CD del disco:
www.thisiswildhoney.com


English:

The first thing you hear on Wild Honey’s debut album, “Epic Handshakes And A Bear Hug”, is a “uhuhuuu”, then a voice, then some handclaps… and bit by bit, everything starts to fit in it’s place at the right time: a trumpet and a ukelele, a keyboard, whistles…

To record this album, Guillermo had to move all the furniture in his house, in order to get some space to place microphones, instruments and cables, to have everything handy and out of the way at the same time. All the tracks were recorded there and all the records were put on their sleeves there as well, with the same enthusiasm someone fastens with staples the pages of a fanzine.

The album was mixed in seven days at “Alex The Great”, Brad Jones’ Studio in Nashville. Since day one Brad and Guillermo found some common ground and made a fruitful connection. The result is a beautiful album in which you can recognize his love for music and distant echoes from Brill Building, the Zombies, early Scott Walker, the soundtracks of the Sherman Brothers for Disney, Michel Legrand, Curt Boettcher, bubblegum pop, and all the sentimental and cheerful american music from the first half of the 20th Century to Sufjan Stevens and Jens Lekman. Pop with carefully crafted arrangements that makes every song special in a different way. “Epic Handshakes and a bear hug” is a handful of beautiful songs to discover and cherish.

The album is sold on one only format, a vinyl (180gr red vinyl) that comes with a cd version here:
www.thisiswildhoney.com