literature; performed by DEXXX. Virginia Woolf delivery. Rebecca West concept. Anne Frank inspired and dedicated. lliterature; the album. Fade in : Murder
In Shakespeare’s’ Hamlet, the protagonist puts on an “Antic Disposition”. What if Sir Williams tragic masterpiece was turned into a “screen” play Simile of our world? Then turned into a volk song? You would probably facetiously reply that “that would be even more tragic”. Fade in, the sound of Fortinbras’s Military Industrial complex approaching Elsinore. Shakespeare and Keenan would call this exploitation a Confederate season. This Confederate season domino theorizes us south of the Mason Dixon Line. Alas, poor Yorrick becomes the fool of rhyme when a southern gentleman and a blue coats daughter agree to form a perfect union with born and borrowed children. Wegener’s continental drift theory becomes a twisted human Pangaea.
Plates shift and drift 75 degrees, southern latitude. Africans, Jews, poor White, tired Roma, the broken hearted, hurried in a Forced march to the land of misfit toys, Antarctica. Limbs plucked from mere children, leaving only ghost pains. When asked of conditions in Antarctica, Photo-Journalist Rosemarie Keough replies “You can take calculated risks, but you can never forget where you are”. The ship sinks. A few are washed ashore where they find polar explorer Ernest Shackleton engaged in a different “Forced March”. Britain’s police commissioner Sir Ian Blair battles “black boys and Charlie” in West End. The Civil War Battle of Nashville re-erupts in East End. This time its Nashville verses Hollywood.
A Weaver weeps atop a ruby encrusted ridge. A new member of the Modern Day Job society now including the Militia that once assaulted ridges below the price of wisdom, engaged now in Persia. “For the price of wisdom is above Rubies”(Job 28:18). to be continued.Album dedicated to the memory of the author Anne FrankRozez dedicated to the memory of the artist Janet Levine March
He is DEXXX. Buckle up for this ride. Musically and spiritually, you're going all over the map.
The Nashville artist with earthy acoustic energy calls his sound Southern Urban Folk Esthetic Rock, or SUFFER. (He insists its a perfectly innocent, non-protest-related acronym.)
The story behind his new album Literature is based on the quote "literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" by Irish critic and novelist Rebecca West, mixed with frenzied Shakespearean dreams and a cry against social injustice. He is accessible to anyone who craves art, literature, and intelligent lyrics. His vocal style is reminiscent of 60s protest folk singers the sign bearers, the leaflet distributors, the irresistible carnal souls that enticed wide-eyed hippie girls down from their dreamy hilltops.
But while his personal sound is rootsy and raw, his musical ambitions will not stay grounded. When not devouring books and CNN webcasts, he produces rap artists, jazz sirens, metal groups and divas, and even co-writes with a bluegrass band. He is drawn to all kinds of art. Intelligence is his sole requirement across all genres.
He's survived a strictly religious upbringing, a stint in rehab, a few stints in jail, a near fatal motorcycle accident and gunshot wound that almost grounded him for good. (he staggered from a hospital bed and into CALLEES bar to "avoid questioning, think his life over and to have a drink".) He may live a little closer to the straight and narrow now, but the anguish, anger, and crazed laughter is still there, and he pours it into his art.
You do not listen passively to DEXXX.
You let him jolt your mind.
Jennifer Layton Indie-Music.Com
DEXXX; George Orwell; Jack London; Percy Shelly; Mary Shelly; radical writers of literature -UK Activist Network
