Hotmam Sound Recordings
Holy To Dogs
Holy To Dogs
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"Holy To Dogs" (2024) by MIDI Janitor.
Jonathan Orr uses found MIDI keyboards and sounds sourced from old media ('90s sampler CDs, '80s VHS documentaries, '70s student films) to create thick, lo-fi electro that's unlike anything else on the Vancouver scene.
The album's title is a reference to the Gospel of Thomas: "Don't give what is holy to the dogs, lest they throw it on the dump." Jonathan Orr read this as he was falling asleep and mistakenly assumed it was not about "sacred things" but specifically about "things sacred to dogs." What would such a thing be? Jonathan Orr envisioned a pantheon of the world's unappreciated things, the trash, the waste, the rotting and abandoned: things forgotten or half-forgotten, like the rusted remains of ancient cities and the clips of dead media buried on his hard drive.
Holy to Dogs charts a course through this narcoleptic vision, from the luminous revelations of "Petroglyph Park" to the dark repetitions of "Roman Concrete" to the eerie momentum of "Split Foot" to the rhythmic hypnosis of "Far Speak," with each track building a series of audio snapshots of lost worlds, forgotten rituals and abandoned histories.
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