9/16/2011
Richard There - If the world calls, please leave a message (2011)
/Singer-songwriter, Dada music, Weird folk, Alt-folk, Spoken word, Experimentalism, Avant-folk, Neofolk/
Comment: no problems with locations. Richard comes from there, actually from There. Very simple indeed. As "simple" as his soundscape used to be. He is a part of the avant-garde group/movement Apskraft, representing proudly its off-the-kilter ideology and peripheral attitude. More concretely, he is an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter in his eccentrity, loving to bake from introspective fingerpicked acoustic folk to electronic buzz-laden guitar music to dada-ish spoken word snippets to experimental robo pop a la Kraftwerk to darkwave/neofolk a la Lycia or Death In June. In a more "usual" approach, his script reminds of the likes of Bill Callahan and John Fahey. Above all of that can be figured out for some off-the-kilter cover songs. In the first place, these are just some vague comparisons to be for. Do not forget about that!