Listen To This

Official video for Holotrope by Boisebased band Wend Harp, Vocals Riley Johnson Bass Ross DeMastus Drums Wade Ronsse Dancing Madeline Bay Video Production by Daniel Ojeda. Filmwork by Daniel Ojeda and William Bowers. When writing the song Johnson said she was imagining an island where certain parts of yourself are banished although you live on the mainland. The song reflects the dichotomy of those parts of self interacting and reuniting. Holotrope is perhaps not what one would expect from a band fronted by a harp. Its got rhythmic breathing in the background and, no pun intended, Johnsons voice wends around the song thats also full of different percussion suppled by Ronsse. DeMastus rounds it out with spacey and interesting bass lines. Holotrope almost works itself into a kind of musical frenzy at the end that combines all of the sounds. Its definitely not folk music; think more experimental and psychedelic. Ojeda ended up writing a complete video storyline to go with Holotrope and wa