Haethor
Viruoso Amy Owens & multidisciplinary artist Howard Merlin Wulkan are HAETHOR, presenting the world premiere for the pop single “The Hook” from their upcoming May slated self-titled album from Farmadelica Sound. Taking their name from the Egyptian god of music, Owens & Wulkan together create an enchanted force that brings a blend of beguiling electronic arrangements that fuse earth running foundations with the unbound energy of the rapid breezing air & infinite atmospheres. The dove soaring spirit of the duo’s ethereal nature is grounded with the concepts of human relations that delivered in a head & heart spinning simile like field & streams sports of fishing.
The complexities of catches & complications are turned into a modern micro-opera as HAETHOR’S Amy & Howard hem a song that sews the ephemeral with the immediacy of romantic involvements. The duo compares our pursuits for companionship to the conceptual connection of the fisher-person on the hunt for the albacore of their dreams. The metaphor framework revolves around the compromises that inherently occur once two people have been hooked into an amorous bond that brings about both changes that are desired & undesired as a result. HAETHOR’S “The Hook” elaborates upon the act of fishing for tuna to the search for a mate in lyrics such as, lay down your line, biding your time, where solitary pier line casts bring about more than one has necessarily bargained for. The fishing hook becomes the song’s center object where the complex events of dating juxtaposed with waterside hunts become the inspiration for an inventive ballad designed for both the theatrical stage & all universal sound-streaming platforms.
Howard Wulkan described the new single with the following reflections:
Combine vintage sounds, a modern beat and the theatrical antics of an operatic soprano and you get “The Hook”, a slice of the fusion music-making on our debut album. The hiccuping rhythms and sweeping lines of HAETHOR’s first single tell the story of a lurching, hesitant, but ultimately exuberant decision to give in to that thing you don’t really want, but you do, but you don’t. But you do. Because ultimately, when it comes to relationships, sometimes we only think with the capacity of a fish about to get hooked.
HAETHOR’s self-titled album arrives in May via Farmadelica Sound.
