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Valet, is the musical project of one Honey Owens. Owens, who is active in Portland’s (the American one), DIY music and arts scene. She also has a bass playing gig with “Atlas Sound.”

Valet’s music inhabits huge acoustic spaces that compel you to wander following “shifting, reverb-drenched repetition” and which reward your close attention to the minutiae of the tracks’ frameworks.

This is fairly stark and sometimes confronting music. Some of the notes and tones seem to diverge and regroup just barely hanging on, clutching together and then letting go to repeat the process again in different combinations. Sometimes it feels like a ghost train ride at a fair, music leaps out of the dark, grabs your attention and then vanishes. And in the middle floats a disassociated voice, that is suddenly replaced by wah guitar.

It’s not all “hard listening” though, Valet’s music is full of accessible moments, OK it’s not pop but it is interesting, lets call it deconstructed ambient blues. But rather than call it names do give it a listen.
Recommended for the adventurous.

Try the website at www.myspace.com/honeyowen

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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