Bluesanct
Vollmar : Okay (US,2006)***°
Justin Vollmar is a man travelling in life, according to the label by bus, pursued by things that are lo-fi, while neglecting the booze and stoned kind of inspirations, not knowing what to do with the casual artists that need depressions to help the underground feeling stand up clearly, trying to neglect all their escapism-in-clouds feelings. But also Justin often ended up musically surviving on mattresses, surrounded by small paper notes of real heart-poetry remarks. In most songs, Justin Vollmar sings with more technically clearly recorded vocals than ever. In those best circumstances, with his clearly sounding voice, the remarks in the songs are a bit more guiding for a band music approach, filling the air with the comfort of a rock band sound. When I focus on the songs, it’s less noticeable, but this band is a bit of a strange thing (Nathan Vollmar on drums, bass with backing vocals by David Brant, and with keyboards by Dorey Fox). It seemed to be on the very edge of things, psych, with certain wacky looseness in the guitar fuzziness, and with loosely awake percussion, that sometimes gently drift and makes pleasure with rhythm, elsewhere just looks for things in the basement or backyard archives, or can’t really find his way out with the rhythmic focus and becomes seriously wacko, caused by a, well placed, emotionally drifting cloud piece of music. The conscious communicating poet with his diary of ideas still is there at the concept’s service, with a whole collection of several “Sorry Sue” ideas, in a way collected and comparable to his previously privately released CDR album, “4 separate things”.
On the last song you can hear the poor singer wandering on the streets with no place to live.
