Huunter (the double 'u' is not a typo) is the pseudonym of twenty two year old American musician Lloyd Bourne.
His debut was a minimalist classical album called Shantih dedicated to his late grandmother. For this follow up he has shifted musical direction largely as a result of an epiphany at Chicago's Lollapalooza in 2008.
A set by Booka Shade at this festival opened his ears for the first time to the crowd pleasing potential of dance music. The consequence is that he has created an album which he describes as Modernist Classical Electronic Dance Music.
The electro-dance influence is plain although it's hard to imagine the tunes whipping a festival audience into a state of frenzy.
The opening two instrumentals (The Antitelephone and The Ultraviolet Catastrophe) are more cinematic in mood. They would be perfect for a dark psychological thriller or to soundtrack a chase scene through a neon lit city. The mood of suspense in the title track comes from a contrast between deep bass lines and mad Aladdin Sane style piano interludes.
Each track has a 'this is some deep shit' title which name-check theories from the discipline of physics.
The third track, for example, is called The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (and features samples of operatic vocals of Shirley Foster and baritone James Martin). In the world of quantum mechanics (according to wiki) this principle states that the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be measured. The two properties in Huunter could conceivably be applied to the euphoria of kick ass dance music and the more intellectual highs offered by the world of classical music.
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Then again, he might have just chosen the title because he thought it sounded cool!
The fourth and final track (The Entanglement) is also released as a single, a strange choice as it is much less immediate or striking as the other three tunes.
Patching two such diverse musical disciplines together doesn't entirely come off but the album is an original piece of work that is certainly worth hearing.
If you're prepared to give your e-mail address and postal code it is downloadable free from Huunter's own website.
Huunter's website
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