About HUSK97
Who are you? Where are you from ? What do you do? All questions that, in one shape or another, I’ve had difficulty answering all my life. The responses, at least here, come in tones and spaces.
It started with a name – don’t get me started on names. I’d left the first band I was in and wanted to write and record songs of my own, but not under my own name. Not that I’ve anything against my own name – it’s served me well – but I felt the need to name this new thing, to baptise it with a symbol. Searching for something that could fit me, I settled on Husk. It was short and rough, and suited me. It was a sound to start with, which I could then later graft on explanations to. It spoke to my voice, which is, at best, rough. It spoke to something stripped back and essential.
This was all in Dublin, in the 90s, in a city that shaped and moulded my ideas about songs. DIfferent line-ups of the band formed, played and recorded, and in the new songs there are shades of those days. Between Husk and Husk97 there are journeys though, that saw me leave Dublin, to travel the world, and to settle roots down elsewhere, in another evocative city Bologna, Italy.
And what, then, do you do? I write and record songs – largely holed up in a basement studio. What type of songs? What type of influences? Though I’ve been thinking about it for years, it’s far too soon to say – and besides, why not find out for yourself
The short Version:
Husk97 is the music of singer-songwriter Andy Lawless. It’s a continuation of Husk which was a band playing around Dublin in the late 1990s. At the dawn of the millenium he left Dublin to travel, visiting South America, Australia, the Far and Middle East, before settling in Italy.
Along the way there have been various collaborators helping out on the songs, credited per song as they go up.
Nail Varnish is the first release from the upcoming debut album Memory Maps.
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When I smell it in the air you come to me
your smile, your face
Nail Varnish