Most of the tracks on London based acoustic slide guitarist Geiger von Müller's new album Neocubist Blues are short, really short, as if he wanted to show that you can stumble upon an idea and you have write a down it pretty damn quickly before it's gone again. There are three more parts of his long running Toys In Ghettos excursions and Origins has reached its sixth episode. The blues is all over this collection, with forays into folk, plus an unexpected tribute to Beethoven's Für Elise in Europa.
When he does stretches out, like he does with the rumbling New Revisit and percussion driven Heavy Lite Darkness, Von Müller tests the boundaries of his self-inflicted limitations: it's just him, a guitar and a slide, but can he conjure up whole sun-beaten worlds, places where loners feel comfortable while heading for the hills. This is music with teeth and thorns, with a few smooth patches thrown in to offer some respite.
