Alvarius B / Alvarius B
Album: Alvarius B   Collection:General
Artist:Alvarius B   Added:Oct 2006
Label:Abduction Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2006-10-29 Pull Date: 2006-12-31
Week Ending: Dec 31 Dec 17 Dec 3 Nov 26 Nov 19 Nov 12 Nov 5
Airplays: 2 2 2 4 2 6 4

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 27, 2010: lost and found
70 Mile House
4. Sep 29, 2010: Kremit visits Brownian Motion
Outside Steppes
2. Oct 21, 2010: Satan, still in the playoffs
Gloomy June
5. Sep 23, 2010: Brick's In Oahu Pt. II
The Waxing
3. Oct 06, 2010: Pee Pirates In The Playoffs, Why Did We Take All Those Laxatives
Outside Steppes
6. Jul 01, 2010: Value Machine
Bleak

Album Review
Chauncy Sunderland
Reviewed 2006-10-23

32 short solo acoustic guitar compositions by Alvarius B (of Sun City Girls). Experimental, lo-fi, wandering. Ranges from appalachian folk, drone, raga, noodles, to unconventional plucking+strumming. Tempted to compare to the usual suspects Newman, Basho-Jughans, & Rose, but unlike the above, technique is not really present, but is made up for by intimacy and refreshingly naive and earnest musicality. Times range from 0:48 to 2:19. A reissue of recordings made from 1981-1989. Picks ***14,24 **4,5,10,11,13,16,23,27 *2,9,12,15,30. Really, all good. Just drop the needle. FCC clean. Moo-cows on the beach!!

Raga - 2,11,13,22,30
Korean influence - 4,5,8,18
Percussive - 1,6,13,15,17,23,29
"Traditional" folk - 2,7,11,14 (harmonica),19,28
Midtempo - 4,9,13,16
Fast & frenetic - 1,6,15,17,22,23,29,31
Herky-jerky - 1,15,17,29,31
Stripped Down & Bare - 5,16,24,28 (ends -0:30)
Bluesy - 18,32
Rockish - 20 (slow),25 (fast)
Slow & restful - 12,24
Slow, pained & anthemic - 14
Slow & melancholy - 9 (harmonica),26,27
Darker & dramatic - 3,6,27 (whistling),30,32
Flowing &/or harmonious - 2,7,11,12,19,28
Experimentally Noodley - 8,10,15
Experimentally Searching - 21,24,26

Track Listing
1. The Mighty Bufo   17. Wreckage The Julip
2. Gloomy June   18. Mouth Pacific
3. Day-Glo Joe   19. Jackalope
4. Mystery Altitude   20. Deputy Piano-Wired
5. 70 Mile House   21. Vongco Texa
6. The Waxing   22. Mesarchuleta
7. Blue West   23. Incident In Your Hair
8. Cold Piece Capsule   24. Flaming Stagecoach
9. Mosquito   25. Bloody Whiteshirt Handshake
10. Phantom Green Light   26. Missing From Pasture
11. El Mirage   27. Mr. Lonely
12. Outside Steppes   28. Cupid's Crossbow
13. Jet Nicholson Murder   29. Black-Eyed Shrubbery
14. Bleak   30. Cancer To Capricorn
15. 66 Miles North Of Vegas   31. Missing Trombone
16. Bad Moves Of Distinction   32. Sky Realty