A Broke Moon Rises

Description

AN ACOUSTIC 4-GUITAR POST-ROCK WITH HYPNOTIC MELODIES & STRUCTURES At the end of the 80s, David Pajo made a name for himself with Slint, a pioneering post-rock band that would permanently shake up one side of rock. He would also play with the equally cult and experimental Tortoise and with the supergroup Zwan formed by Billy Corgan. His solo career is just as fascinating; he has gone under different names, Aerial M, Papa M, or simply Pajo. In 2016, he returned with Highway Songs under the name Papa M, breaking a 10-year solo recording silence. It was a necessary outlet, to turn the page on a suicide attempt, the hospital, the wheelchair, the psychiatric asylum. If this album drew on the different genres he had played in the past, folk, blues, metal, and pop, his new album A Broke Moon Rises establishes a new one that could be described as acoustic post-rock because here nothing is electric. In five tracks, David redefines his technique by taking it in unknown directions. It is at this precise moment that his music becomes alive and transcendent. The layers of guitars nestle into one another, unfolding delicately until a slide cuts through the progression with a rusty glide. The arpeggios sparkle with light and are so many micro auditory revelations. It is a meditative album by a restless mind that jumps all over the place. The whole thing is hypnotic.