Blind Owl Wilson - Blind Owl WilsonBlind Owl Wilson was a truly great guitarist and vocalist whose deep well of psychedelic blues songs were buried amongst the catalog of major label rockin blues band Canned Heat. Blind Owl served as Canned Heats guitarist and would chip in a song here and there as a front man. A couple of those songs became huge hits in the 60s Going Up The Country and On The Road Again. Blind Owls songs for Canned Heat stood in stark contrast to the bands blustery

including Joy Division’s ‘Disorder’

For Countless Branches  he’s completed new toplines over some of his cache of backing tracks

is an elegant marriage of traditional folk music and contemporary sound design drawing references from Hedfi's drumming expertise and the textures of Tunisian music alongside a startlingly broad array of global genres

recording something of a Soviet-themed concept album under the pseudonyms Joseph Weil and Norman D

the synth-drenched beauty of the second track

that at once compiled all of the innovations from his past

all under-pinned by a deep soulfulness that pervaded much of the music of the time

his vicious but uplifiting vision taking inspiration from the melodic yet scabrous likes of Killing Joke

TO BRING YOU MY LOVE originally reached #12 in the UK Albums Chart on release and dominated album of the year polls from The New York Times to the Guardian

Full-tilt with tunes

Highly influential and revolutionary LP

Perceived as a symbol of the struggle for Cape Verdean independence and frowned upon as music of uneducated peasants