Tom Rodwell - Wood & Waste - [Vinyl]

Writerly Taste & Crossover Vision Forms Decadent LP by Spirituals/Blues Guitarist Novelists famously use their day jobs for material?guitarist Tom Rodwell mines his crossover blues career with a writerly taste for the surreal on Wood & Waste, a decadent and charmingly outr� collection. Wood & Waste is what used to be called a cult record - a set of warmly anarchic influences and timeworn qualities that is Tom Rodwell�s trademark. His songs resemble ragged short stories, cobbled-together genres from an alternate history. �The aim is to locate each song in a very specific room of its own, with contrasting feels like layers of paint or old wallpaper.� The album�s centrepiece is �She Got Me Boiling�, a juggernaut of psychedelic calypso welded to mindless riffs on cannibalism that would make the Mighty Sparrow blush. Driven by a bass-heavy guitar pulse and animated carnival drums, it�s a fiendishly irresistible piece of music, as is the absurdist one-chord freak-out �Touch Me Like a Teddybear�, featuring NZ free improv notorieties Jeff Henderson and Chris O�Connor on drums. Improvisation is a key theme of Wood & Waste, where frequently a skeletal idea transforms into a fleshy dance rhythm. �Keep on Knockin�� subverts a determined Bo Diddley beat with dissonant Mellotron in praise of Edward Hopper and William Morris. �Plenty Time� is a species of prog rhumba set in Roman Britain, indebted to Nigerian giant King Sunny Ade. An English artist moored in New Zealand, Rodwell�s revival of blues music as a vehicle for dance has been supple enough to embrace rhythms from spirituals and calypso, and seen him support acts like Otis Taylor, C.W. Stoneking and Leon Russell. (�Beautiful tunes, beautiful groove?you don�t hear that anymore,� said Derek Trucks). A parallel career as a session player has seen him moonlight live and on record for artists as diverse as Lonnie Holley, Robert Lamm and Don McGlashan, as well as various avant-jazz projects. LP features download card

Tom Rodwell - Wood & Waste - [Vinyl]

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