Karl Blau has a legendarily broad résumé. He has worked on 250 albums during the last three decades, his experience ranging from Earth and Microphones to Laura Veirs and Matthew E. White. And his own catalogue has forever been that of a musical polyglot, bending funk and folk and pop and punk into experimental forms with total glee. This title song ‘Vultures of Love’ from the latest album from Blau released mid-October there’s certainly something of a Howe Gelb vibe going on – the song opens with a gritty field recording, which quickly gives way to a bluesy, psychedelic arrangement.
On ‘Vultures of Love‘ Karl Blau shares: “I started to enjoy this play of words after writing the title track based on a discussion my friend Andrew Dorsett and I had whereupon we created these voices that resembled the personification of vultures. Nasal-ly, sort of starting high and going low with the pitch of your voice, and breathy – “Mmmmmm… is it ready? I don’t know, maybe we should leave it a while, give it another day?” I think we were watching them circle.”
