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| RICHARD YOUNGS | |||
| Multi-instrumentalist
from Glasgow Richard Youngs began releasing albums in the early '90s on
various independent labels. His music ranges from the pure experimental,
instrumental, minimal, and avant-garde through to folk-inspired songwriting
and progressive rock. In songwriting mode, he is similar to Robert Wyatt,
Anthony Moore, and in particular other fine acts from Glasgow John Martyn
and the Incredible String Band. In his more experimental projects with Simon
Wickham-Smith and Brian Lavelle, the cacophonous roar is closer in style
to the '90s noise underground artists such as the Dead C, Sun City Girls,
or White Winged Moth. The CDs Advent and Festival were released on Table
of the Elements and other indie labels. Majora and VHF released his music
solo and in settings with like-minded collaborators, such as Stephen Todd,
and most commonly with Wickham-Smith. Richard Youngs has produced an expansive
body of work and his recordings are diverse and cover many different areas
of musical interest. There is a common thread in his material which links
his recordings, however, and that is an uplifting defiant and playful attitude
that gives the albums a common charm, in that they expose the artist as
joyously indulging in the delights of a hermetic and musical world. Not
to say that his music is obscured by any means; he has a network of publishers
and followers the world over. |
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