Edsel Axle
Variable Happiness
Boomkat Product Review:
Bill Nace, Graham Lambkin and Samara Lubelski collaborator Rosali Middleman channels a decade of experience into her Edsel Axle debut, encasing bluesy riffs in blankets of meditative ambience. RIYL Loren Connors, John Fahey, or Bill Orcutt.
Recorded at home on a four-track cassette deck, 'Variable Happiness' has an undeniable homespun quality that's hard to ignore. It's well engineered, lovingly realised music that captures the immediacy of Middleman's guitar playing, and thanks to its recording technique, never sounds overcomplicated or crowded. Middleman's an experienced guitarist, so her improvisations aren't fussy or noodly, they're direct and driven, built from the foundations of blues but often wandering off on their own path.
'Some Answer' is a splintered solo guitar lament that sounds like a Bill Orcutt 45 played at 33. Slow and contemplative, it's music that sings loudly and emotionally, with tears wrung out of every distorted note. Middleman doesn't stay in the same space for long: 'Present Moment' takes an almost cosmic turn, stretching out over almost ten minutes of meditative bliss, and 'Variable Happiness' is faded, electrified folk ambience, all tremolo and light plucks.
On 'Her Wind Horse', Middleman's guitar sounds as if it's in a deep cavern, wailing into the reverberations, and 'Singular Grace' takes us to the end credits with a puff of smoke and blown out, layered arpeggios. Well good.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Bill Nace, Graham Lambkin and Samara Lubelski collaborator Rosali Middleman channels a decade of experience into her Edsel Axle debut, encasing bluesy riffs in blankets of meditative ambience. RIYL Loren Connors, John Fahey, or Bill Orcutt.
Recorded at home on a four-track cassette deck, 'Variable Happiness' has an undeniable homespun quality that's hard to ignore. It's well engineered, lovingly realised music that captures the immediacy of Middleman's guitar playing, and thanks to its recording technique, never sounds overcomplicated or crowded. Middleman's an experienced guitarist, so her improvisations aren't fussy or noodly, they're direct and driven, built from the foundations of blues but often wandering off on their own path.
'Some Answer' is a splintered solo guitar lament that sounds like a Bill Orcutt 45 played at 33. Slow and contemplative, it's music that sings loudly and emotionally, with tears wrung out of every distorted note. Middleman doesn't stay in the same space for long: 'Present Moment' takes an almost cosmic turn, stretching out over almost ten minutes of meditative bliss, and 'Variable Happiness' is faded, electrified folk ambience, all tremolo and light plucks.
On 'Her Wind Horse', Middleman's guitar sounds as if it's in a deep cavern, wailing into the reverberations, and 'Singular Grace' takes us to the end credits with a puff of smoke and blown out, layered arpeggios. Well good.
Boomkat Product Review:
Bill Nace, Graham Lambkin and Samara Lubelski collaborator Rosali Middleman channels a decade of experience into her Edsel Axle debut, encasing bluesy riffs in blankets of meditative ambience. RIYL Loren Connors, John Fahey, or Bill Orcutt.
Recorded at home on a four-track cassette deck, 'Variable Happiness' has an undeniable homespun quality that's hard to ignore. It's well engineered, lovingly realised music that captures the immediacy of Middleman's guitar playing, and thanks to its recording technique, never sounds overcomplicated or crowded. Middleman's an experienced guitarist, so her improvisations aren't fussy or noodly, they're direct and driven, built from the foundations of blues but often wandering off on their own path.
'Some Answer' is a splintered solo guitar lament that sounds like a Bill Orcutt 45 played at 33. Slow and contemplative, it's music that sings loudly and emotionally, with tears wrung out of every distorted note. Middleman doesn't stay in the same space for long: 'Present Moment' takes an almost cosmic turn, stretching out over almost ten minutes of meditative bliss, and 'Variable Happiness' is faded, electrified folk ambience, all tremolo and light plucks.
On 'Her Wind Horse', Middleman's guitar sounds as if it's in a deep cavern, wailing into the reverberations, and 'Singular Grace' takes us to the end credits with a puff of smoke and blown out, layered arpeggios. Well good.
Boomkat Product Review:
Bill Nace, Graham Lambkin and Samara Lubelski collaborator Rosali Middleman channels a decade of experience into her Edsel Axle debut, encasing bluesy riffs in blankets of meditative ambience. RIYL Loren Connors, John Fahey, or Bill Orcutt.
Recorded at home on a four-track cassette deck, 'Variable Happiness' has an undeniable homespun quality that's hard to ignore. It's well engineered, lovingly realised music that captures the immediacy of Middleman's guitar playing, and thanks to its recording technique, never sounds overcomplicated or crowded. Middleman's an experienced guitarist, so her improvisations aren't fussy or noodly, they're direct and driven, built from the foundations of blues but often wandering off on their own path.
'Some Answer' is a splintered solo guitar lament that sounds like a Bill Orcutt 45 played at 33. Slow and contemplative, it's music that sings loudly and emotionally, with tears wrung out of every distorted note. Middleman doesn't stay in the same space for long: 'Present Moment' takes an almost cosmic turn, stretching out over almost ten minutes of meditative bliss, and 'Variable Happiness' is faded, electrified folk ambience, all tremolo and light plucks.
On 'Her Wind Horse', Middleman's guitar sounds as if it's in a deep cavern, wailing into the reverberations, and 'Singular Grace' takes us to the end credits with a puff of smoke and blown out, layered arpeggios. Well good.
Black LP with obi strip.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Bill Nace, Graham Lambkin and Samara Lubelski collaborator Rosali Middleman channels a decade of experience into her Edsel Axle debut, encasing bluesy riffs in blankets of meditative ambience. RIYL Loren Connors, John Fahey, or Bill Orcutt.
Recorded at home on a four-track cassette deck, 'Variable Happiness' has an undeniable homespun quality that's hard to ignore. It's well engineered, lovingly realised music that captures the immediacy of Middleman's guitar playing, and thanks to its recording technique, never sounds overcomplicated or crowded. Middleman's an experienced guitarist, so her improvisations aren't fussy or noodly, they're direct and driven, built from the foundations of blues but often wandering off on their own path.
'Some Answer' is a splintered solo guitar lament that sounds like a Bill Orcutt 45 played at 33. Slow and contemplative, it's music that sings loudly and emotionally, with tears wrung out of every distorted note. Middleman doesn't stay in the same space for long: 'Present Moment' takes an almost cosmic turn, stretching out over almost ten minutes of meditative bliss, and 'Variable Happiness' is faded, electrified folk ambience, all tremolo and light plucks.
On 'Her Wind Horse', Middleman's guitar sounds as if it's in a deep cavern, wailing into the reverberations, and 'Singular Grace' takes us to the end credits with a puff of smoke and blown out, layered arpeggios. Well good.
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