BONE
“Uses
Wrist Grab”
(Cuneiform, 2003)
Line Up:
Nick Didkovsky: guitar
Hugh Hooper: bass
John Roulat: drums
Very few times
in the history of the rock it has happened that a record company is able to reach the
levels of credibility and trust that it has obtained the noted label Cuneiform.
Each one of the pieces that they integrate their catalog possesses the added value of
quality and seriousness that make them indispensable for the most demanding listener. A
tradition to privilege the talent above the fashions.
Was this
introduction necessary for the present comment? If, absolutely. It would be excessively
unjust to begin this revision without before to mention to the label responsible that we
have before our eyes a product that represents with so much fidelity those concepts and
ideas.
And that product is Bone, Nick Didkovsky's new band (Doctor Nerve), Hugh
Hooper (Soft Machine) and John Roulat (Forever Einstein) that we
are surprised with a first disk that summarizes the whole better tradition of the Art
Rock, which reaches own shine through a brilliant combination of innovative elements the
beyond the use of recognizable elements sufficiently far from the traditional sound of its
origin bands that they allow him to acquire an own identity. Bone shows to three
fantastic musicians in a full moment of inspiration and high level of creativity.
Few groupings
have the capacity to capture their ideas how it makes it Bone in “To Laugh
Uncleanly At The Nurse”, “Fostor Wives, Trophy Hair”, “Danzig”
or “Green Dansette”, really memorable. But maybe the truly admirable of
this disk rests in the originality of their arrangements for so single three basic
instruments, achieving a perfect assembles, that which allows us to appreciate the
technical quality of Didkovsky, Hooper and Roulat, owners of an
enviable instrumental occupation.
To the usage of
the lasting works, “Uses Wrist Grab” it is an album that it needs of
several passings to value it in their fair dimension. A lot of force, technique and
emotion put to the service of a project that we wait it doesn't culminate with the edition
of a single album.
The best edition in Cuneiform presently year? Surely.
Sergio Vilar |