Moving from yesterday’s electronica complexity by Leon Vynehall to an admirable exercise in catchy minimalism by Bristol’s Chris Barrett, who on this project restricts all music to his charity shop purchased Yamaha PSS-170 keyboard. This number also echoes a northern soul classic, at least in terms of a bass line, There’s a Ghost In My House by R. Dean Taylor. But here the inspiration is is not a ghost in the house, but a live bison. The song is inspired by a news story about a couple who’ve adopted a bison and take care of it like a pet, allowing it into their house. “It was like a puppy, it was completely dependent on that couple to look after it, despite being a huge wild beast,” he recalls. Extrapolating from that, the song is meditation on unhealthy co-dependent relationships. “Each verse is talking about how once you find this person you hold onto them and don’t let them go, from the male and female perspectives,” Barrett says. “It’s definitely not healthy.”
To enjoy more of Post Yoga’s music and order the self-titled album due out in August, visit the Bandcamp page which is also embedded below. Out on Nothing Fancy Records.
Post Yoga’s Chris Barrett with his Yamaha
And here’s a bison report …
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