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CATCH A BUZZ……GET THE FUZZ
Uberfuzz came too late… It sounds like the Rugby sound of twenty years ago. Or even the New York sound of 35 years ago. Or the sound of Berlin 25 years ago…
It doesn’t have a place in today’s radio-orientated ‘verse-chorus-verse’ stream of consciousness, but it was never designed that way.
Uberfuzz is an art project rather than just a run-of-the-mill rock n’ roll outfit.
Many of the songs seem designed by building layers of sound.
Very few of the compositions are pre-conceived and even less turn out the way they were envisioned during conception…
…good.
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Uberfuzz changes and people come and go in but I hope its purpose will remain true to what it was intended for…
…something different. A re-visit to some slightly askew memory, or an eye opener to askew memories and future days to come.
Uberfuzz carries with it a long line of musical direction and inspiration that will be clear to some on the first listen, or be a magical mystery to others.
It draws from such important eras as the Delta Mississippi blues of the 30’s and 40’s and the folk storytelling of Cisco Houston and Huddie Ledbetter. Contemporary enactments of this style of music are clear in the ghostly slide-guitar licks n’ twangs on many Uberfuzz compositions (often emulating Ry Cooder’s score of ‘Paris/Texas’)
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Jazz and free-jazz is clearly apparent in some of the musical ventures. The un-bound cosmic space licks of Sun Ra and the improvised discipline of John Coltrane texture a large part of the Uberfuzz ethic. The avant-garde space epic of ‘Your Love Tends to Leave Me in Orbit’ also shows a musical relationship with Can and Captain Beefheart.
The 60’s vibe plays an important part also. Whether it be in the form of instrumental groups, such as the soul crunch of Booker T. & the MG’s (on such tracks as ‘Interstellar Shakin’), or the film-score twang of the Shadows or John Barry. Anyone familiar with the garage rock movement of that same decade (do ‘Nuggets’ or ‘Pebbles’ ring any bells?) should pick up on a long time connection to its roots.
On top of all these building blocks of yester-year are more modern emulations. Wholly apparent in the spirit of minimalist or post-psyche drone rock groups like Suicide, Spacemen 3 and Loop.
These factors are combined to make something satisfactory and exciting, both artistically and conceptually. Uberfuzz is more than the product of a love affair with music…
…Uberfuzz is an idea
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