Variable Happiness

Description

Rosali Middleman, a collaborator of Bill Nace, Graham Lambkin and Samara Lubelski, channels a decade of experience into her first album as Edsel Axle, wrapping bluesy riffs in layers of meditative atmospheres. RIYL Loren Connors, John Fahey or Bill Orcutt. Recorded at home on a four-track cassette, 'VariableHappiness' has an undeniable homemade quality that is hard to ignore. It is carefully crafted music, made with love, that captures the immediacy of Middleman’s guitar playing and, thanks to its recording technique, never sounds too complicated or overloaded. Middleman is an experienced guitarist, so her improvisations are not fussy; they are direct and driven, built on the foundations of the blues but often wandering off on their own path.