Lonnie Holley gets ‘chopped and stewed’ by Easily Suede

Two of Atlanta’s most fruitful experimentors team up for bizarre goodness

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Easily Suede, aka Faun and a Pan Flute’s guitarist Adam Babar, is no stranger to the remix game. Apart from the project’s own lucid and elusive, rhythmic sound collages, which serve as a sort of pop take on musique concrète, ES’ material has been remixed by others (such as this fantastic rework by Feast of Violet). Babar also teamed up with Nomen Novum, literally phoning in his contributions to the glitched ecstasy of “Heathered.” Now, Babar has beamed in a new retooling of an old gem by improvisational folk artist and songwriter Lonnie Holley, who happens to be Babar’s neighbor.

The cosmic fortuitousness materializes here with an anxious remix of Holley’s “Earthly Things,” that professes his abhorrence of material goods. Babar takes cues from DJ Screw’s guidebook while injecting his own ecstatic sense of enthusiasm. Holley’s vocal chants collide and overlap, sometimes blurring into an aural epiphany, with an army of Holleys all singing in a disfigured chorus. It’s no surprise Holley has been an occasional collaborator with Faun and a Pan Flute.