Hussain Bokhari - Possessions (Mood Hut)

The Slow Music Movement
Sep 12
1 min read

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's September 3rd Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

The cover for Hussain Bokhari's Possessions album on Mood Hut records, showing a man in a Buddhist monk style orange robe with a tattooed chest reclining on a plastic chair, hand resting on head. Background features white railings.

Born in Bangkok but calling Vancouver home, Hussain Bokhari has finally come out of his stripped down bedroom studio with an impressively widescreen musical world view.

Hussain Bokhari wearing headphones sits in red-lit room with a guitar on the wall. A plant and camera are on a shelf. Calm and cozy atmosphere.

By my count, and just to hit home why buying music you love is so important, he’s probably going to get paid about $10 by Spotify and a $100 by Bandcamp depending on his label deal. This genre fluid album deserves better rewards.

His Mood Hut label says:

"This is music for the spaces between cities, between eras, between yourself and the person you were.”

The cool mixtape producing Sparky82 reminded me of my old blog reviews that were of a similar length and style for the first few years, and left this review on the Bandcamp page:

“Lovely all-rounder album on a mellow, lo-fi, slacker-balearic tip. Sounding like a collaboration with Mac De Marco, Horsebeach and Jack-J with a love for wonky wavey synths, stoner vocals and twangy jingly sun drenched guitar. Where's the vinyl?“

I say:

“It’s great, check it out.”