Olaf Rupp * Fuzzy Logic (2lp) [New LP] 2/4/14 Glass Spider/Up the Hill Backwards

Glass Spider/Up the Hill Backwards (Reprise)

Sony Korea

Blackboxwarrior: OKULTRA

19 in a Major

paired with Greg Lawless's inventive guitar work

Olaf Rupp * Fuzzy Logic (2lp) [New LP] 2/4/14 Glass Spider/Up the Hill BackwardsGerman guitarist Olaf Rupp combines elements of traditional flamenco (rasgueados, arpeggios, picados) with the fractured cadences of Derek Bailey, fusing them together with a blast furnace tone recalling John Lee Hooker's most blown out extremes. And yet, despite decades of concerts and releases on FMP and Emanem, often with marquee grabbing collaborators like John Zorn, Peter Brtzmann, Butch Morris, Paul Lovens and Lol Coxhill, Rupp's music is