OLD YELLOW SERPENT - s/t TAPE Minimal or Fly” is a testament

or Fly” is a testament to their restless creativity

and melancholy lyrics that lurk in the background

waiting to return home and eat with our kin by the stove

Part of the burgeoning international pop underground of the nineties

the album sounds like Eno-era Roxy Music or Stooges' Fun House buried deep in the red Oklahoma dirt

OLD YELLOW SERPENT - s/t TAPE Minimal or Fly” is a testamentEdwin R Stevens and dbh are two jammers for life who have been playing together in various constellations for around half of their earthly existence. To my knowledge this is their first duo release, and as such it's appropriately roomy two 40ish minute sides of long form pieces for guitar and fiddle that follow their own winding routes to their own gorgeous ends.