- Improvised music
- Avant-garde
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Art music
- DIY
- Experimentalism
- Avant-blues
Comment: it is
said at Lastfm site that Stillborn Blues isn't blues but minimalist,
awkward, melancholic and lo-fi prepared/detuned guitar pieces played
in the dark with too much delay and reverb. Even if it is a honest
(self)-confession a listener can find out many layers and gushes of
emotions bursting out of this 12-track outing. Musically the whole
can be compared with such a cutting-edge guitar juggernaut as Loren
Mazzacane Connors whose music is also not being considered blues yet
by the experimental musician's own words all he owns musically is due
to blues. And also obsessive, dissonant guitar treatments by Fred
Frith appear to come to mind after the endless of flow of variegated
moods and emotions – from laid-back and halcyon to highly
tumultuous, aggressively spaced-out threads. All of that is a
dynamical format of dichotomy between chaos and fining, between pain
and endorphin-enriched peace. The artist eschews some natural
characteristics of experimental music, for example, avoiding
progressing into drawn-out improvisations. However, even without it,
all these short compositions constitute a dynamical, seamless whole.
Although being truly wrung out and stoned for the listener it chimes
somehow very archetypical and deeply rooted in the tradition of rock
music and because of that I dare to call it a sort of blues as the
initial spore of it. The artist's music is anchored over there yet he
deconstructs it in different ways. It is all about downright
experimentation and invention, about simplicity and intention of
giving no damn. No self-indulgence. Some sort of massiveness. It is
an instance of true black power which leads the c(o)urse. The
impressive outing is a notch in the discography of Eg0cide.
