BOYO
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HALA [http://thebandhala.com]
Hala (pronounced haw-luh) is the performance moniker of Detroit-based
musician Ian Ruhala. Ruhala’s music is at once precise and playful,
skipping breezily between decades and their attendant musical
aesthetics while executing them with care and sincerity. On his studio
debut Red Herring, Ruhala elevates this formula, applying his
genre-agnostic blueprint to a set of songs that comprise a no-concept
concept record: a varied LP which explores the tragedy and
comedy—often, both at once—that color and confound the modern
22-year-old’s existence.
To execute his wide-lens vision, Ruhala worked with producer Ryan
Hadlock (The Lumineers, Vance Joy, Ra Ra Riot) at his legendary
secluded Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, Washington. Apart from
strings—played respectively by longtime Brandi Carlile collaborator
Josh Neumann and Andrew Joslyn—Ruhala wrote and performed each
instrument on the record, including guitar, piano, bass, drums,
baritone ukulele, xylophone, vibraphone, and all vocals.
The result is a coming-of-age record from an artist recognizing that
cohesiveness need not only be expressed in structural sameness. It can
and should be found in other experiences, in the complex, poignant,
life-and-death fleetingness of a three-and-a-half-minute pop song. Or
better yet, 12 of them back-to-back.
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