ABOUT THIS ITEM

Paddy is a Zelig-like character along the timeline of Manchester's musical activity. It's a testament to his musicality that he has played with such a wide range of music and artists over the years, be it as a bass player, drummer, Hawaiian guitarist etc, or all these roles at the same time. His own Homelife project released albums in recent years, Homelife's sound was intricate but with a warm sense of wonder, a balance of songs and instrumentals. On "Dragons Breath", essentially an instrumental solo project recorded in parallel with Homelife's "Atlas" (a new song-based album), there seems to be a link with his current interest in animation. It's a cartoon-like music with parallels to Carl Stalling (Looney Tunes genius); dense with events, new textures and the colours of children's paintings, "Dragons Breath" sounds like a Swiss cuckoo clock made of egg boxes and horsehair, glued together by an African Moog player in a Vietnamese iron monger's shop.