Digging Deeper
“I sit around and I fiddle with sounds. Once I have a sound that I like, that will guide a progression or a melody, and from there it can go pretty quick.”
What began as an exercise described as “noodling” by White Willow and The Opium Cartel mastermind Jacob Holm-Lupo is served up as something much more substantial on his mostly instrumental new album, Hesitant Light.
He started using the title Donner – the German word for thunder, although he doesn’t mind if you think of late-night Greek food or the recently-passed American movie director – to release his noodlings as a form of synth sound sketches. Finding that each piece of new old gear brought with it a mercurial level of inspiration, however, the project quickly became something
