Deep Sea Vents LP

Deep Sea Vents is a spirited full-length collaboration between Bruce Hornsby and yMusic (BrhyM, you can call them), built with the same enthusiasm and openness that initially drew the two parties together. An album of 10 songs about water and the ways we live with, in, or against it, Deep Sea Vents is Hornsby and yMusic as you have never heard them but also instantly identifiable in their own ways. Hornsby's instant melodic ease joins yMusic's rhythmic precision and endless versatility, pulling each toward new currents.

Together, they turn the various states of water into a metaphor for a difficult first date over drinks during “Phase Change,” Hornsby’s piano climbing the ladder of yMusic’s pizzicato plucks and woodwind smears. And in their hands, the existential anxiety of exploration becomes a funky strut stuck somewhere between triphop and Ligeti for “Deep Blue,” with Hornsby on electric sitar. Just as the ocean reminds us of how much we have to learn about our world, Deep Sea Vents reflects just how limitless musicians in one another’s mutual thrall can be.

Every song on Deep Sea Vents betrays this same sense of wonder, musically and conceptually. Neither Hornsby nor yMusic set out to write a record about a world of water, but Hornsby simply found that’s where his adult curiosity about science and most everything else happened to lead him.

Deep Sea Vents Track Listing:

1. Wild Whaling Life
2. (My) Theory Of Everything
3. Platypus Wow
4. Phase Change
5. Foreign Sounds
6. The Wake Of St Brendan
7. Deep Blue
8. The Baited Line
9. Barber Booty
10. Deep Sea Vents