Mo Douglas - Fry The Onion Gently TDRCO-183
Released October 25, 2021
Every great recipe starts with a little bit of onion. That sharp and spicy bulb gets just a little sweet when you throw it in some hot oil.
Mo Douglas does it again, cooking up the groovy instrumental jams and bestowing upon our ears the best recipes for love, all on dog-eared pages fresh from your momma’s favorite magazines. Mo’s perfectly imperfect concoctions are hand-crafted to bring a smile to your face and open up your mind - psych, funk, soul, dub, jazz, garage rock, but most important of all a perpetual groove - swirling throughout the record as the flavors mingle. You know Mo won’t do it all alone, though: Mariya May drops in to “Dance The Long-Haired Dachshund” and even throws a dash of airy flute into the pot on “A Thin Slice of Zucchini;” Peter QB steps into the kitchen with his tenor sax to sprinkle some jazz and class into the mix for an overall chilled-out vibe; and Prince Joely’s synth on “Add The Bay Leaf” adds that extra little something.
Following the brilliantly hazy, lo-fi Society Women Go Slumming, the new Fry The Onion Gently is a more lucid experience, dragging all that freak folk experimentation, globe-trotting sonic spelunking, and bold experimentation out into the light for a high fidelity party from the first sax blow to the final finger snaps. (Bryan Bruchman)
Produced, Performed, & Mixed by Mo Douglas in Portland, Oregon
Cover Art & Design by Ryan Massad