Füxa
Very Well Organized

In the second act, with a trick worthy of Pirandello, the three actresses in "Three Tall Women" present the same woman at different ages to our eyes. "Very Well Organized" is an experience similar to that theatrical piece that earned Edward Albee the Pulitzer Prize in 1994: the sense of déjà-vu is overwhelming. It's all the organ's fault, which paints melodies and background. The organ is the same that beat groups (from Vanilla Fudge to Le Orme) used forty years ago, the same that thirty years ago progressive groups (from Genesis to Focus) overused for their bizarre projects, the same that twenty years ago ended up, out of poverty or irony, in the hands of indie pop (from Felt to Young Marble Giants) and, ten years ago, the Füxa thought it was time to resurrect it.

"Outer Drive", the eighth of these eleven instrumentals, is an interlude for the concept album that Dik Dik never recorded. "Unexplained Transmission Repair" is effective and I would have pointed it out to Chris Carter for "Millennium", the series heir to the "X Files". "Pangaea", on the other hand, greets the wave of interest in the Exotica genre that erupted at the time of this CD's release and could have appeared in the repertoire of Combustible Edison.

This tranquil music jaunts lightheartedly between the effects of the Floyd and the arpeggios of the Vuh, offspring of both but resembling neither. "Homonym Hymn" is the reincarnation of the B-side of a Christmas 45 rpm... It takes talent to uncover latent resources and "Very Well Organized" is a dazzling journey into the modern and the modernist. Curiously, however, Randall Nieman and Ryan Anderson combine the never-abandoned sound of the Hammond organ with the indicative mood and a very present tense. Afflicted by nostalgia for golden times that were never theirs, Füxa embark on the calligraphic effort of recovery and reconstruction of a snubbed heritage. Ignoring the object of the music in favor of the context, Füxa replace the background for the subject, favoring the habitat over the animal.

This choice of the circle over the line is a profoundly contemporary whim, and it is what characterizes the Füxa experience: whichever of the three ages of the organ one is listening to, there is always a deep awareness of the present, which is at the same time one, none, and a hundred thousand. Pirandello would have been proud.