There's a new genre in town. It's got some folk, a tinge of blues vocals, a soft airy base of Beirut and sporadic Neutral Milk noises. It drifts through dark passionate undertones of 50's jazz clubs wrapped in the ideal of the outdoors, that ideal of nature that the city can easily forget. Open to the Hound (OttH) can take you back outside.
Garrison York, lead singer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and producer for Open to the Hound has been playing guitar since he was 12. After starting OttH four years ago, he is taking his strides here in New York. Nostalgic for his hometown of Littleton, Colorado nestled up to the Rocky Mountains, he's brought that environment with him in the form of his musical stylings. Wilderness Rock is his way of staying connected and not forgetting the great outdoors, and he's bringing that similar feeling of peaceful outdoor blues to the Urban Jungle.
Poetic lines about the soul meeting earth in its universal lingering and powerful lyrics of love and self struggle we can all relate to are encased in bizarre metaphor and backed by his perfected fingerpicking.
He’s created three albums by his own means of production: On the Bangs of Africa, The Lied EP or Such Sweaters on Our Teeth and The Year of November, which includes the soundtrack from Sparrowtree’s Indie Musical Hansel and Gretel. He applies looped tribal percussions with folk harmonies and the melodic help from sister Carly Howard.
After York’s start in Denver playing around town, New Yorkers can find him in intimate stages throughout the city under dark seductive lighting outlining his bluesy strokes. Be sure to get an ear full and get back to the wilderness at www.opentothehound.com.
Upcoming Shows: Front Runner Gallery Saturday March 26th @ 7pm
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