Bruce Hornsby: vibrantly imaginative
TRISTANWILLIAMS;FILMMAGIC FILMMAGICFORBONNAROOARTSANDMUSICFESTIVAL
IT’S unlikely anyone will hear anything much stranger this year than BrhyM’s “Platypus Wow”. “Got webbed feet, rubber bill, fat-ass tail, furry chill”, a multi-tracked Bruce Hornsby mumbles to a peculiar accompaniment of squawking, cawing woodwind, adding, “Dark purple-green coloured fur/I’ll stick that ass with my poison spur”. Soon he’s quasi-rapping, joined by mournful strings, unpredictable piano runs and doo-wop harmonies, before concluding, “I light up the world, only for you”. The sentiment might sound Disneyesque, but Disney this is not.