Bleep

Ernest Hood’s story is both tragic and inspiring in equal measure. An accomplished jazz guitarist by the mid 1940’s, Hood was well on his way to stardom before Polio robbed him of his ability to play. Still emboldened, Hood picked up the far less taxing zither as his new instrument and recorded Neighbourhoods, his nostalgic opus of ambient jazz in 1975. Previously lost recordings from around the era (chiefly between 1972 and 1982) have suddenly been unearthed and collected as a new LP entitled Back to the Woodlands. Hood’s zither work meshes wonderfully with field recordings to further flesh out the themes he chased all those years ago.