ARTISTS

Loretta’s Museum

Loretta Blue

Genre: Instrumental / Free Folk / New Weird America
Home: Nowhere, Oklahoma, USA
Pronouns: They / Them
For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart meets The Books
Favorite B-Ball Player: Dennis Rodman

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Biography

Loretta Blue of Loretta’s Museum grew up in Eastern Colorado and began experimenting with sound in a tack room stall circa 2004. Though their days on the plains are in their rear-view mirror you can still feel, touch and merely smell the dry alfalfa hay bales, horse hair, and saddle soap in their sonic contributions. They record, produce and solely play (unless noted otherwise) all their records. Loretta’s Museum is playful, full of movement and always in a shifting formation of curious wonder. Perhaps Loretta arrived on this chaotic plane with the sole purpose of carrying a desert flower through the chasm to place it gently against your ear for the sake of a delicate embrace.

"I found an image of someone molding clay hands into the fragile unevenness of plastic sheathing. I took a photo of that photo and placed it between a projector mirror and my center. I bowed beneath it with microphone in hand, elbows acute and catching breath on the offbeat. I rotated the stereo out to a mono in and cut off the high end so the remaining warbles could slowly boil in the cauldron."
– Loretta Blue on 2017’s ‘Mouth Mirroring Ear’ LP.

Loretta tends to constantly be on the move, and thus in the same vein, Loretta’s Museum keeps very busy year round, releasing album after album. Furious Hooves is honored to have released not one, not two, but five (5) full-length masterpieces belonging to Loretta Blue. Six (6) if you count their contribution to the Furhoof Halloween Split Series (No.07) in 2017.

In 2020, the year we all wish to forget, Loretta Blue trudged on and founded Frillimcaster Records Unlimited. They self-released an extremely limited edition vinyl of their album ‘Sound Portraits from the Gelmer Tastle Odyssey.’ Furious Hooves teamed up with them later that year to release it digitally worldwide. The following year, Furious Hooves teamed up with Frillimcaster again to release not one but two beautiful instrumental(ish) folk soundtrack-tal masterpieces entitled ‘Bowl of Art Fruit’ and ‘Little Dry Creek.’ Furious Hooves was also proud to release the debut for Loretta’s Museum in 2017; the digital-only instrumental “soundtrack-to-be” album ‘Mouth Mirroring Ear’ on May 19th 2017.

Once 2022 came around, Furious Hooves and Frillimcaster Records Unlimited decided to go big with the release of a collection of “singing songs” from 2014-2021. ‘Collected Streams: Singing Songs 2014-2021’ was co-released on limited edition vinyl on April 23rd. They also put Loretta’s entire catalog in print for the very first time on limited edition cassette tapes. Multiple bundles were made available with half of all sales being donated to Trans Lifeline.

Press & Accolades

“The Buzz Beam 2020 Party On Orlando Island” from ‘Sound Portraits from the Gelmer Tastle Odyssey’ LP featured in an Apple ad for the iPhone 13 on Instagram.

“Bizarre dreamy instrumental indie/folk soundtrack music. The acoustic guitar playing is slightly reminiscent of Robbie Basho, and the keyboards and synths remind me of The Books...but the sound as a whole is very unique and difficult to pigeonhole. It's playful and depressing at the same time...kind of like a Wes Anderson movie.”
– Fog Songs, review of ‘Sound Portraits from the Gelmer Tastle Odyssey’ LP. (4/2022)