mudboy
This is Folk Music
mudboy
This is Folk Music
"We first heard the oddly named Mudboy on Last Visible Dog's recent mammoth six-cd
Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box. Curiousity thus piqued, we're pleased to now find
a Mudboy full-length cd has now also just been released by LVD. This Rhode
Island feller's woozy music, performed with home-built electronics and modified
vintage keyboards (a circuit-bent church organ we're told), would be the perfect
soundtrack to a creepy, sleepy sort of imaginary movie... this cd's full of
ominous drones and sinister synth but it's also soothingly repetitive and
goshdarn lovely. Whooshing interludes bridge the spaced out explorations of
minor-key organ melodies that permeate the disc, occasionally infiltrated by
field recordings and broken rhythmic glitch. It's an atmosphere of menace that's
strangely warm and inviting. If Bo Hansson's ghost made Halloween music, or down
on his luck Eric Malmberg (keyboardist of Sagor & Swing) was hired to play a
lullabies for a monster baby...they'd sound a bit like Mudboy, perhaps. And if
"this is folk music", then Cluster and John Carpenter are folk music too, 'cause
Mudboy seems to be inspired by both kraut-tronics and analog fright flick
scores. And we're ready to snuggle up with that monster baby..."
--Aquarius Records