VIKING MOSES + Golden Ghost + The End Springs

Mon 13th Oct 2008

Viking Moses & The Luminaire presents
VIKING MOSES
+ Golden Ghost
+ The End Springs

Doors 7.30
£7 door

Raw, howling folk and intimate, intriguing story-telling. Viking Moses is music as seen through the lens of Brendon Massei’s truly nomadic life.

Many musicians adopt a bohemian persona to fit their music, but Viking Moses is the real deal. Brendon has released banjo and acoustic guitar albums under several names. Perpetually on tour (since 1996), he has played with Will Oldham, Cat Power, Songs: Ohia and Devendra Banhart, to name a few, yet his body of work has received little commercial or critical attention.

His newest full-length under the Viking Moses moniker, the story-song cycle 'Crosses', is by far his most accomplished work, and ranks among the best of the newest crop of American folk recordings. For anyone who has seen Massei perform live, the delicate mood of 'Crosses' may come as a bit of a surprise. While a Viking Moses show often finds Massei on his knees wailing like a man possessed, 'Crosses' consists of nothing more than a softly picked nylon-string acoustic guitar, a bass, and some piano flourishes, with Massei's trademark baritone rarely reaching its cathartic heights.

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