Candy Claws / Hidden Lands

Twosyllable

RYAN HOVER and KAY BERTHOLF, composers, arrangers, and principle songwriters of CANDY CLAWS, wrote Hidden Lands on keyboard because they don't know how to play keyboard. They had to rely completely on what sounded right, rather than rely on techniques they had learned. Strange chords and melodies arose that might sound "wrong" to the trained musician, but sound mysterious and exciting to them. Each song on Hidden Lands contains a sample of every other song on the album. They’d used this technique on previous releases, but this time around it happens throughout the whole album, creating a very cohesive listening experience. Hidden Lands, their second album and first on Twosyllable records, is a musical companion to Richard M. Ketchum's book, The Secret Life of the Forest. To derive lyrics, the band borrowed paragraphs from the book and used translation software to translate them back and forth between English and Japanese until they equalized, finding very cool phrases along the way. The resulting lyrics are almost nothing like the original words, but are actually some very insightful and poetic phrases. On the road, Candy Claws are an orchestra of eight. Friends and musicians from the Fort Collins, Colorado area bring to life the sounds of Hidden Lands. It is completely unique and wonderful record. There may be nothing in the world like it. (STREET DATE - 8/03/2010)

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