A David Grubbs album is always the right opportunity for a journey towards new frontiers of experimental music.
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David Grubbs - Creep Mission (Drag City Records, September 22, 2017)
It is certainly always worth revisiting and listening to every new album by David Grubbs, an artist with a colossal history who continues to churn out new works that showcase his great inventiveness and technical skills, experimenting in the dual direction of the tradition of American primitivism and his great master John Fahey, as well as the minimalism of John Cage. "Creep Mission" is one of the best works he has published recently, for which he enlisted a series of collaborators (the same ones from the album "Prismrose"), such as drummer Eli Keszler and trumpeter Nate Wooley, along with an experimenter in the field of electronics like Jan St. Werner. The album is a work poised between primitivism and experimentation. "Slylight," "Creep Mission," "Jack Dracula," and "The C In Certain" are three compositions in which Grubbs constructs spectacular guitar arpeggios, creating sonic suggestions accompanied by prolonged vibrations in the space between drone nuances and blues echoes in the style of Ry Cooder. "Return Of The Creep" amplifies the effect of the guitar sound further, creating open distorted sound waves layered atop minimalist arpeggios. In other tracks, Grubbs' guitar sound is immersed in sonorities ("The Bonapartes of Baltimore") and accompanies experimental synthetic sound vibrations ("Jeremiadaic"). The leitmotif of the album is precisely these sound overlays and layers, combined each time in a different way but always with great style and elegance.
Creep Mission | David Grubbs
#avantgarde #primitivism #davidgrubbs
#zot2017
David Grubbs - Creep Mission (Drag City Records, September 22, 2017)
It is certainly always worth revisiting and listening to every new album by David Grubbs, an artist with a colossal history who continues to churn out new works that showcase his great inventiveness and technical skills, experimenting in the dual direction of the tradition of American primitivism and his great master John Fahey, as well as the minimalism of John Cage. "Creep Mission" is one of the best works he has published recently, for which he enlisted a series of collaborators (the same ones from the album "Prismrose"), such as drummer Eli Keszler and trumpeter Nate Wooley, along with an experimenter in the field of electronics like Jan St. Werner. The album is a work poised between primitivism and experimentation. "Slylight," "Creep Mission," "Jack Dracula," and "The C In Certain" are three compositions in which Grubbs constructs spectacular guitar arpeggios, creating sonic suggestions accompanied by prolonged vibrations in the space between drone nuances and blues echoes in the style of Ry Cooder. "Return Of The Creep" amplifies the effect of the guitar sound further, creating open distorted sound waves layered atop minimalist arpeggios. In other tracks, Grubbs' guitar sound is immersed in sonorities ("The Bonapartes of Baltimore") and accompanies experimental synthetic sound vibrations ("Jeremiadaic"). The leitmotif of the album is precisely these sound overlays and layers, combined each time in a different way but always with great style and elegance.
Creep Mission | David Grubbs
#avantgarde #primitivism #davidgrubbs
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