Geiger von Müller: Neocubist Blues

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 to push "record" 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. This is music with teeth and thorns, with a few smooth patches thrown in to offer some respite.

Neocubist Blues is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Toys In Ghettos (Part 10)
3. Toys In Ghettos (Part 11)
4. Toys In Ghettos (Part 12)
5. Europa
6. Bottleneck Blue
7. Before The Slide
8. The Slide
9. After The Slide
10. New Revisit
11. Origins #6
12. Heavy Lite Darkness
13. Orphic Cube
14. Synthetic Cube
15. Analytical Cube
16. Outro

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