After
listening to this cassette several times over and being made aware that Bob
Bucko Jr. is the one behind Personal Archives, I was browsing through other
tape labels and found an artist known as “BBJr.”, which I then was able to
deduce was also Bob Bucko Jr. Needless
to say, Mr. Bucko Jr. certainly seems to have an expansive catalog of cassettes
released across various labels that might not even just be his own. At the same time while listening to this
and coming to that conclusion which seems so obvious now, it hits me and I must
somehow find a way to review all BBJr. cassettes.
The
music of Bob Bucko Jr. can be difficult to describe, as it is also tough to
pigeonhole. Most writers enjoy saying
things are certain ways, or combinations of those ways, but the music found on “Travel
Well” is more of a living being than something set in stone. It begins as an acoustic sound which reminds
me of Don Ho for whatever reason, but then does become electric and has jumbled
starts and stops.
While
the second side of this cassette seems to be more ambient than the first, I
just can’t help but think every time I listen to this that I’m pulling
something different out of it. In some
ways, it feels like I’m noticing aspects of it I didn’t notice before- like
when you watch a really good movie for a second, third, fourth time, etc. But
then at the same time, I also feel sometimes when I look at my notes that
perhaps I’m listening to something I wasn’t listening to before: the cassette in
and of itself somehow changes.
This
will hopefully be the first of many cassettes I listen to and enjoy from Bob
Bucko Jr. Years from now, when all
these BBJr. cassettes are sold out and people want to hear them, I’m going to be
the one starting a tape label so I can release a Bob Bucko Jr. cassette boxed
set. In some ways, I feel like that has
been my destiny all along and I’m looking forward to it in ways as well.
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