“Liberated
Atheist” is a 7” lathe cut record by Geoff available from Dirty Pillows. It is essentially one long track about
fifteen minutes in length, but when I started listening to it I thought I had
it all figured out until I didn’t. What
begins as experimental sounds with spoons and alien noises turns into slightly
distorted electric guitar notes like something Hendrix would use.
The
initial sound of aliens or just overall weirdness quickly becomes a sort of
blues type jam riff complete with tickling the ivories, which is a way I now
realize no one should use to describe playing the piano. It is in this way that with some steady bass
beats that the song takes on the form of Alabama’s “Dixieland Delight”, which I
only know of thanks to classic rock radio.
And then
it goes back and forth on the whomp before ending and concluding what is a most
interesting piece of music. The style
on it can vary, as it takes its twists and turns throughout, yet it somehow
manages to get us there without missing a beat. From how it is written on paper, by me, it
would seem as if it was divided into several pieces, yet the way that Geoff
makes it flow is seemingly effortless.
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