Modern Peasant – Silk Rope (2005)
- New Weird
America
- American Primitivism
- Anti-folk
- Drone folk
- Experimental folk
- Psych-folk
- Art folk
- Avant-folk
- Free folk
- Improvised music
Comment: by listening to the album Silk Rope by
the artist Modern Peasant I guess it evokes many thoughts within the listener’s
head. First of all, it chimes as a modern equivalent of the so-called American
Primitivism movement, being established and popularised foremost by such
artists as John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke. Musically it does mean it
is filled with warped and extended guitar chords as if they were played on the
prepared, vibrant instrument. As I already denoted the album to be a modern
equivalent of the style the first part of it hints at intriguing electronic
sounds, arousing sonic effects and some suggestive noises within it. However,
the artist must be praised due to having the inner measure line in itself to
balance these compartments in a moderate way. Because of the aforementioned
contemporary part within the artist`s music Silk Rope could be
pigeonholed as an exemplary of the New Weird (America) movement, for instance,
having much in common with Ben Chasny’s Six Organs Of Admittance, and the
French experimental folk duo Natural Snow Buildings` droning landscapes full of
beatific magic. In a word, the result is enchanting providing fare to your soul
and heart. Initially this 8-track issue was released on an Asheville, NC-based
netlabel, Epicaricacy, what at the moment is very hard if not impossible to dig
up. The issue truly deserves to be disseminated through thousands of headphones
and loudspeakers over the world and universe. It is very rare and precise.
