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R. Stevie Moore is referred to as the founding father of Lo-Fi and home-recording, a pioneer in the DIY ethic, and one of the progenitors of underground tape culture, that began in the early ’80s, and later evolved into the cd-r/mp3 revolution of today. Around 1981, he founded the RSM Cassette Club, and began a self-made bedroom label, through which he still sells his music directly via-mail.
He composes, arranges, produces, sings and plays all the instruments in his home-made compositions. The music comes in all colours - from Psychedelia to New Wave, Country to Punk Rock, but also Power Pop, Electronic, Glam, Folk, Found Tape, Prog, Spoken Word, Noise, Funk, and any other man-invented style you may care to mention.
He appears to be something of a musical sponge, synthesizing an insanely varied lot of influences, styles and moods into a continuous sound collage that somehow manages to work together as a logical whole. A pop wasteland of disjointed bits and pieces, where extremely well-crafted songs are interspersed with spoken interludes, instrumental themes, and snippets of found sound.
Something somewhere in the line of what Beck was doing in the early ’90s, but a few decades before its time.
Inspite of Nashville’s closed cultural circuit, Moore absorbed as much as he could from the ’60s and ’70s musical renaissance. |
