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Recommended by us on 3rd December 2010
...according to our Brett on Wed 01 Dec, 2010.
I can't claim to be massively familiar with the Ignatz catalogue, although I've heard bits here and there which I now can't really remember. I guess my probably ill-informed perception of him is that he's some sort of Jandek-style outsider fella from Belgium who plays stuff that might vaguely sound like the blues, but all weird like. I guess these tracks back that idea up quite a bit, sounding as they do like the attempts of the lonely ghost of a half-trained bluesman to entertain himself in the secluded room he's been trapped in for decades with naught but a horribly overloaded amplifier, a rudimentary drum kit, the odd drone and a toy organ for company. Delightfully off-kilter his playing may be but he definitely knows how to put a memorable tune together and it's not at all difficult to see why so many people hold his work in such high regard.
‘What the hell’s wrong with this guy?’. That will probably be the first thought that goes through your mind when first listening to this mind frying 4th lp by Belgium’s most intriguing musician. Apart from the tree enigmatic vinyl releases on KRAAK Bram Devens also released a handful of tapes on different labels. This LP compiles the best tracks of his cassettes on Goaty Tapes, Bennifer Editions, Scumbag Relations, Imvated, Dreamtime Taped Sounds and New Age Tapes, plus a previously unreleased track from the Ignatz III demos, on which we hear the man as close as he ever came to the genious vibes of Lou Reed. “Selected songs from cassettes 2005-2009” shows Devens in all his different guises: from the crying sailor drowning in psychedelic mud to the melody addicted outsider baladeer choking on home brewn hard liquor. This is Ignatz’ ultimate record and last step before his orchestrated concept album period.
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