Cam Deas - Untitled Blues Part 1 & 2

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5...according to our Phil on Thu 18 Jun, 2009.

Cam Deas has released some top records on Blackest Rainbow, Dirty Demos, Dead Pilot etc. and here's his newie on The Great Pop Supplement. It's a 7" which is limited 300 copies only all hand numbered in an art booklet style 7" foldover sleeve thing (looks lovely!) It's quite different to his previous releases. Yeah he's still playing a guitar but it's more more raw and primal sounding. It starts off reasonably sedate with some tuneful yet discordantly brooding slow playing before it goes all nuts and mental in the middle. Almost knocked me off me chair it did. It's a while since I've heard that much passion on a record. It doesn't sound like it but it really really reminds of the passion you'd get in traditional flamenco which if you've ever seen a proper non touristy flamenco performance I'm sure you'll have been moved to some sort of goose pimpled state. This is some powerful intense shit and it's one of the best 'one man and his guitar' performances I've heard in ages. Untitled 1 and 2 is spread across 2 sides of a 7" and if you're into that whole Fahey, Basho, Jack Rose thing you'll poop your pants when the needle hits the record. Breathtaking!

Stunning 45 from Sheffield based Cam Deas- a debut 45 on wax. 2 heavy strummed blues across 2 sides of vinyl- best approached as 1 long piece. Sure, the names of Fahey, Basho, Blackshaw, Rose etc spring to mind, but this has a raw, slow building presence and an expressive approach all of it’s own. A potent brew- perhaps a departure from recent work on labels like Blackest Rainbow and Dead Pilot, released as a pressing of 300 numbered, date stamped copies in linen card, fine art sleeves with sticker

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