{"product_id":"olaf-rupp-fuzzy-logic","title":"OLAF RUPP - Fuzzy Logic","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"607\"\u003eGerman guitarist \u003cstrong data-start=\"17\" data-end=\"30\"\u003eOlaf Rupp\u003c\/strong\u003e combines elements of traditional flamenco (rasgueados, arpeggios, picados) with the fractured cadences of \u003cstrong data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"153\"\u003eDerek Bailey\u003c\/strong\u003e, fusing them together with a blast-furnace tone recalling \u003cstrong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"231\"\u003eJohn Lee Hooker\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most blown-out extremes. And yet, despite decades of concerts and releases on \u003cstrong data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"319\"\u003eFMP\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"334\"\u003eEmanem\u003c\/strong\u003e, often with marquee-grabbing collaborators like \u003cstrong data-start=\"383\" data-end=\"396\"\u003eJohn Zorn\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"398\" data-end=\"417\"\u003ePeter Brötzmann\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"435\"\u003eButch Morris\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"452\"\u003ePaul Lovens\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-start=\"457\" data-end=\"472\"\u003eLol Coxhill\u003c\/strong\u003e, Rupp’s music is largely unknown outside of European free improvisational circles and has, until now, never been presented on vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"1057\"\u003eOver its four double LP sides, \u003cem data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"653\"\u003eFuzzy Logic\u003c\/em\u003e sounds like a \u003cem data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"682\"\u003eGuitar Solos\u003c\/em\u003e-era \u003cstrong data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"701\"\u003eFred Frith\u003c\/strong\u003e musing on \u003cstrong data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"722\"\u003eJandek\u003c\/strong\u003e or \u003cstrong data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"744\"\u003eCarlos Montoya\u003c\/strong\u003e essaying the music of \u003cstrong data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"783\"\u003eCecil Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e, veering from unadorned yet forceful exclamations into torrents of austere, alien gestures packed with modal angst (a rarity in the capital-I Improvisation world), rewarding careful listening with previously unexplored microlandscapes of impossibly interlocked waveforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1059\" data-end=\"1382\"\u003eRegarding the album’s unique sound, Rupp writes, “Echtzeitmusik-people” — referring to the most strident non-idiomists of the Berlin improv scene — “will once again nag at all those minor chords and the indie rock fans will shake their heads in vain looking for the beat. But unrootedness is also a power, a gift, a way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2874\" data-end=\"3546\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eIn a way, \u003cem data-start=\"2884\" data-end=\"2897\"\u003eFuzzy Logic\u003c\/em\u003e echoes Palilalia’s previous forays into the exquisitely fried spectrum of electric guitar exemplified by some of \u003cstrong data-start=\"3015\" data-end=\"3030\"\u003eBill Orcutt\u003c\/strong\u003e’s records, but more pointedly by \u003cstrong data-start=\"3064\" data-end=\"3079\"\u003eCyrus Pireh\u003c\/strong\u003e’s jaw-dropping explorations of speed-runs skittering through grainy distortion. But unlike Pireh, and unlike anyone else you’ll likely conjure up, Rupp’s work — despite its virtuosity — taps a primal throb dripping with eldritch and unspeakable menace that punches through the buttery intellect to throttle the brain stem, particularly at top volume, which is exactly how you should bathe in \u003cem data-start=\"3472\" data-end=\"3485\"\u003eFuzzy Logic\u003c\/em\u003e to fully experience its torrential majesty. — \u003cstrong data-start=\"3532\" data-end=\"3546\" data-is-last-node=\"\"\u003eTom Carter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PALILALIA","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl 2LP","offer_id":58006409183577,"sku":"SDZ-45553","price":57.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/266fac2d203e0e2d4222e45dfd364531.jpg?v=1778154951","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/olaf-rupp-fuzzy-logic","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}