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Geiger von M​ü​ller - Blue Moon Frequency #4

from Gitaristo Futura by Right Brain Records

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Geiger von Muller is an acoustic slide guitarist based in the UK. If you’re picturing a bluesman on a Mississippi porch c. 1930, that’s not entirely off track – Geiger’s music has direct links to delta blues of a century ago. But there’s an abstract, otherworldly quality to his original work, which is occasionally accompanied by sci-fi imagery. He somehow keeps one foot in the past and the other in a future era we can only imagine. Psychedelic Baby Mag calls him an “avant-garde slide maestro.”

In Geiger’s words:

“The acoustic guitar is an introspective instrument... When you put that on a recording with minimal tweaking or effects then you get a pretty good person-to-person vibe all the way from the moment of creation to listener experience. It's as direct as it gets. It's almost like the guitar itself is being transferred into another room to be heard. All the nuance is there, fingernails clicking as they touch the string, the slide rattling as it hits the fretboard, the body of the ax even creaking sometimes. Mix-wise it's, kind of, the opposite of the wall-of-sound approach. It's like a microscope put on the sound.

When writing, I sometimes like building unexpected textures. Using harmonics to add one or two octaves to the range, meanwhile combining open strings with fretted and sliding notes. It's an exciting path to explore. “Blue Moon Frequency #4” has some of that in it. I used a glass slide for this recording. Glass slides don't excel when it comes to sustain but they are the best for tonal clarity, for me. I also use porcelain slides, they can sound quite special, and I've got a glass-porcelain hybrid type too. I have metal slides as well, cool for bottom end.”

“Blue Moon Frequency #4” is from his album ‘Slide Sonatas I,” which is praised as an “exceptional piece of guitar playing” by Rebellious Jukebox. Backporch Blues Ramble also puts it well: “the right kind of strange - very creative.”

geigervon.bandcamp.com/album/slide-sonatas-i

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from Gitaristo Futura, released March 1, 2023
Geiger von Muller - acoustic guitar and slide

© Geiger von Muller

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