- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Psych-rock
- Improvised music
- Singer-songwriter
- Acid folk
- Psych-folk
Comment: at the
first glance, this issue embraces a couple of lengthy compositions,
one of them is 27-minute and the other side is 31-minute long. A
windy and rainy Sunday for nice listening, isn't. In fact, the two
blocks are divided into many tracks. The US-born artist's 58 minutes
is a vivid excursion based on a galvanised, needle studded electric
guitar full of lasting riffs and heavy twangs to be resulted in
psychedelic maelstroms and lysergic incantations. By its timbre,
reverberant echoes and spiritual touch it chimes like an underground
artist or combo out of the beginning of the 70s by loaning something
from Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and acid folk artists. Indeed, it is
an obvious virtue to reach such sort of sound. And of course, the
artist's gritty timbre and expressive singing manner is worth on
their own by conjuring up a bit spooky ambience. The aforementioned
main course is interwoven with spoken word snippets, "accidental"
sounds and something singular else. There is one ditty about an
uncanny snowman. It is an unusual and solid songwriter outing. Thanks
to Don Campau and his headed The Living Archive of Underground Music
it was recently made available for a wider audience (initially in
1987). In a word, come and see.
