Praise for The Joy Eclectic:

—Crack in the Road:
~SOUND OF 2012~
Having only introduced Ouisa Hound a few days ago, I’ve had his two debut tracks pretty much been on repeat. With the intimately atmospheric feel he creates proving particularly powerful, I was also intrigued by the eloquent way that Ouisa Hound went about describing his own music – ‘Of this music, it is perhaps enough to say this and no more: it was born of a brain pregnant with good and sober sadness.’ If that’s not enough to entice you to check out his two debut tracks Gloom Roaming and Well Overtaken, then I may as well give up now.

—Flashlight Tag:
Ouisa Hound is a brand new artist making extraordinary sounds from his quiet bedroom in Ohio. He recently posted two stirringly gorgeous tracks that immediately caught my attention. These two songs will be apart of an upcoming full-length album titled The Joy Eclectic, which will be released sometime early next year.

Back in early December, the Ohio-based artist Ouisa Hound blew me away with the hauntingly beautiful track, “Gloom Roaming”. Since then he’s released a fifteen-minute experimental hip-hop piece, along with his debut album The Joy Eclectic.

Hiram, Ohio’s, Ouisa Hound (aka Joseph Randolph), has easily become one of my favorite artists to emerge this year.

verbreverb:
Thoughts black, hands crafting scheme, drugs apt, and time agreeing. Knees arched with pregnant hinges, and hairs like table tops.To sleep, perchance to dream. With a 50/50 of perhaps the contradictory.


—Hearing Gold:
Some gorgeous lullabies are offered by Ohio’s Ouisa Hound whose track “Gloom Roaming” is staggering in its immaculate beauty. Put up just a couple of days ago, this track, alongside the other blissful opus “Well Overtaken”, is nothing less than a haven of enveloping soundscapes drowned in soothing euphoria. You can find these tracks on an upcoming album titled The Joy Eclectic, but in the meantime be sure to grab this track down below or via Bandcamp and bathe in its mass of sonic beauty.

Music Fans Mic:
My body feels as if it’s caving in today. After months of working and never really putting anything on hold, I’m out of survival mode, diving head-first into the lurgy. A particularly grotty cold however can’t prevent ’Gloom Roaming’, my first impression of Ohio’s Ouisa Hound, from exposing itself as the startling work that it is. Sky-reaching vocal samples give it a euphoric pulse, but the bone structure holding it all up rests with the overlapping layers of guitar-work, colliding to fill the air with an echoing sense of drama. Gorgeous.

—Potholes In My Blog:
Many thanks to Flashlight Tag for hipping me to this Hiram, Ohio producer who creates lush, smoky, vibrant–pretty much anything opposite the word vapid–beats. If you’ve ever been to Hiram, I’m sorry for you. It’s just a small, flat place with a downtown that you’d think still had malt shops and drive-in theaters. Every head is grey and hair droops out of every aged nose. It’s boring as fuck. Somehow Ousia Hound resides there and creates gems like their The Joy Eclectic. With a sound between Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love” and Clams Casino’s murky kick drums, these seven tracks are nothing but captivating.

—Marinate Media:
Many thanks to Flashlight Tag for hipping me to this Hiram, Ohio producer who creates lush, smoky, vibrant–pretty much anything opposite the word vapid–beats. These tracks are dope.

“Do you believe in (small town) miracles? Yes!”

—strangfire:
Perfect track for a sleepy Sunday afternoon.

I received an email submission from Ouisa Hound in January but I’ve been sitting on it for a while; waiting for the proper visuals to que me to release it. He just got featured on PORTALS a few days ago, which is awesome and that is a much bigger deal than little ol’ me posting him but PRTLS posted a different track so..HA!

“Gloom Roaming” is from Ouisa Hound’s full-length album The Joy Electric and has a wonderfully still, sweet yet somber quality to it. The heavenly vocals soar skyward in a fashion similar to GPSYMTH. It's a safe assumption that if you dug my GPSYMTH post a while back, you’ll love this track. The instrumental portion is cool, calming and all the different aspects of the song have a really great contrast alongside each other.
Listening to it might give you the sensation that you are encased in clouds.

So pour yourself your favorite beverage, kick back, relax and enjoy this one at least three times. I certainly did, and then some.

—Stock71:
Fly from the bedroom to your ears. To fly where greek statues read Proust.

—Believe in Sound:
Ohio’s Ouisa Hound (Joseph Randolph) finally unleashes his much-anticipated debut album The Joy Eclectic. The seven-track album is a welcoming blend of soft ethereal melodies, experimental ambiance and atmospheric soundscapes. The Joy Eclectic can be downloaded here. After the success of Ouisa Hound‘s debut track, ‘Gloom Roaming‘, much was expected from the Ohio native’s debut album. I think it’s fair to say The Joy Eclectic has more than lived up to the hype. Ouisa Hound is a talent we can expect to hear alot more about/from.

—Concepto Radio:
Ouisa Hound es el proyecto en solitario del joven productor Joseph Randolph, originario de Spencer, Ohio y estudiante de literatura y filosofía en Hiram College; este autor contemplativo acude a la vena mitológica del drone para crear atmósferas que se consumen en un romance entre la ensoñación y la lucidez. Estamos hablando de una fragante resolución narrativa que se presenta así misma como el infinito o como el Uróboros. Informado y científico, este músico experimenta las múltiples posibilidades del sonido, dando incluso a las vocales más etéreas el sentido afilado y perfecto de un violín o transmutando la intuición en bellos patrones digitales de origen sobrenatural.

Randolph manipula capas de sonido deleitoso y acolchado, que de lo indescifrable reclama la búsqueda incansable: es probable encontrar en “Gloom Roaming” o “Well Overtaken” el ánimo de la infatuación o el esplendor amorfo de la pérdida; ambos tracks pertenecen a “The Joy Eclectic“, álbum de reciente publicación que gravita entre evocaciones a rituales naturales antiquísimos, fantasmagóricas siluetas sonoras de ambient deconstruído y la presencia esencial de influencias como Ulysses de James Joyce o las composiciones de Arvo Pärt.

—IANS:
Ohio’s Ouisa Hound says about his music: “it was born of a brain pregnant with good and sober sadness“. Supported by his friends he decided to release his songs to all of us and so we can step devotedly into his atmospheric world of ambient music. Grab two free tracks from Ouisa Hound’s Bandcamp page, more to come early next year.

—Paperblog:
Exosphérique. "Gloom Roaming" est un si beau morceau qu'il atteint avec une aisance déconcertante la plus haute couche de l'atmosphère, y séjournant un temps, suspendu, avant de filer dans l'espace. Cinq minutes et quarante secondes s'écoulent lentement, avec en toile de fond une guitare mélancolique que vient accompagner un beat hip-hop hanté par une voix éthérée qui donne le frisson. Ce titre devrait figurer sur le premier album de Ouisa Hound, "The Joy Eclectic", dont la sortie est prévue pour janvier prochain. On ignore s'il s'agira d'un EP ou d'un LP, tout comme on ignore tout (en ce qui me concerne en tout cas) de Ouisa Hound, artiste-mystère dont le repaire serait situé dans l'état de l'Ohio.
Read more at www.paperblog.fr/5143961/gloom-roaming/#tp2hSle3eox252Wc.99

—Their Bated Breath:
If you visit Ouisa Hound’s bandcamp page, the banner image is a closely cropped iconic photo of Maria Falconetti playing Joan of Arc in the Carl Dreyer classic 1928 silent film, “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc”. The look is not unlike the little child gracing the cover of the new record, “The Joy Eclectic”, an album of marvelously sprawling sounds, moods, joys, pains and musical invention. “Tandem Howl” is a slow sludge with deep bass, industrial clanks, wind chimes, light bells, a looped scraping sound, all arranged meticulously. It’s a over six stunning minutes of musical exploration. There’s something both disarming and unsettling about “The Joy Eclectic”, with its hellishly haunting soundscapes and the angelic choir chorus of a song like “Penetralia”. Or take the shimmering and yet shadowy marching quality of the church-like, “Way Out Above the Din”. It’s music that’s reverential as worship and still foreboding as a shadow peaking out from around the next back-alley. There are ghostly coos, whistling winds, stuttered drum kit, textures of metal and zephyr, and breaths that exist half as sexual release and half as dying fall. It’s a bedroom record for those still up in the a.m. hours.