![]() ![]() The instrumental stuff is very much in the moment. ![]() Variable Happiness by Edsel AxleĪD: Do you approach an instrumental record differently than one with vocals and lyrics?Įdsel Axle: For the most part, yes. Everything was improvised, recorded live direct to cassette, no overdubs, just a looper pedal and my guitar. But the actual recordings happened in one night and the following morning. I moved and had some touring going on so it took me nearly a year to find the time and headspace to sit down and record new material, but I was happy to see how my playing and thinking had developed and expanded in that time.ĪD: Connected to the previous question, how long did recording the album take? A few months? Your whole guitar-playing life? Or somewhere in between?Įdsel Axle: The style in which I play has been a culmination of growth over time, getting more comfortable with techniques and being able to achieve what was going on in my head. Chaz from the UK label Worried Songs heard that and reached out asking if I’d want to do a guitar LP. From those sessions, I released a tape titled Chokeweed, via Unifactor in 2021. I play like this a lot for my own enjoyment and during the first year of the pandemic I made it a daily practice to help with the strange uneasiness I was feeling. The recordings seem to react to the listener’s surroundings while also paradoxically forcing the setting to reckon with the sound.Īquarium Drunkard emailed with Edsel Axle about her process for Variable Happiness, the difference between creating lyric-based songs and instrumentals, and the pun-based background of her name. | s bunnĪquarium Drunkard: Did the project start from a specific decision to record instrumental music or is it the result of compiling enough solo guitar pieces to put together an album?Įdsel Axle: A bit of both. The music made by Edsel Axle can sound turbulent, ecstatic, like a breeze gently passing through an open window, and sometimes an eerie feeling of I-don’t-want-to-know-what’s-on-the-other-side-of-that-door. As Rosali, she has released a number of albums in the singer/songwriter mode, whereas Variable Happiness is a collection of instrumental electric guitar recordings. But it doesn’t take much detective work to determine that Edsel Axle is a nom de plume of Rosali Middleman. Variable Happiness was made available to the world in August 2023, courtesy of a previously unknown artist named Edsel Axle. ![]()
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