Higgs’s artistry has wedded music and visual art into a singular being, intended to be encountered as a conjuring force.
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As if this conjuring of sound weren’t enough he pairs his music with a series of paintings that call to mind religious iconography, passed through the disfiguring surrealism of Miro. Known primarily for his work as the sole lyricist and frontman of the band Lungfish, Higgs has released a number of solo outings that are worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of his band, weaving meditative, casually ruptured drones using acoustic and electric guitar, upright pianos, banjo and jew’s harp. His artistic output – spanning three decades, numerous albums, books of poetry and collections of drawings – simply defies classification. It NEVER ends and it maybe spirals around the Dream House and Daniel Higgs.“Growing up, Lungfish was one of the most important bands in my musical cosmology: The Dischord crew that tapped into something incantatory with a questing, spiritual, and (most importantly) punk poetry via an awesome, raga-like minimalism that Higgs has followed into his excellent solo material”– Stereogumĭaniel Higgs is a musician and artist from Baltimore, Maryland.
Totally unexpected and random, even in France. She flew out there not knowing anything about the festival and when she arrives, guess who is also the playing the festival? Daniel Higgs. A few months later, our friend Nathan shows Paul a picture of Daniel Higgs and his band Lungfish playing a show in the 90′s in what was now Paul’s basement in Bloomington, where he had been listening to his Dream House tape that he recorded with Doog.Īlso Lindsay reminded me of another seemingly supernatural syncronistic spinoff to this tale:Ībout six months after we saw Daniel Higgs at the Dream House, Lindsay was invited to play a show with my friends group at a music festival in France. A few months after they visited the Dream House together, Paul moved into a new house in Bloomington and started listening to the Dream House tape regularly. They laid in there for an hour or so while Paul was recording the strange dream drones on a cassette recorder. To take it to another level, a mutual friend of Doog and mine named Paul Smith completes the story…Ī year before Doog and I first visited the dream house with Chris and Lindsay, Doog first went there with Paul Smith. She told Doog that she was Daniel Higgs’ sister and then she started her set by yelling and looping the phrase “RETURN TO THE DREAM HOUSE!” Doog was shocked at this phrase and how it seemed to be related to our mutual history with Mr. There was a woman called Pod Blotz that played before Daniel Higgs. It was the first time Doog had been able to see Daniel Higgs play and I was really happy to have been able to give him that experience. I picked him up and we drove to the show in a noisy and crowded punk house. Daniel Higgs was playing a show on Halloween and I invited Doog to go with me.
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The story mystically comes full circle four years later when Doog and I happened to be in Oakland, California together. He was spinning his head around, shaking himself as he played with the interaction of the tones. We all took in the site of this legendary mystical singer going wild with the tones. He was covered in tattoos, wearing all black, and had a long white beard. Chris exclaims “That’s Daniel Higgs!!” When I first saw him, he looked to me like a member of the Hell’s Angels.
We were in the Dream House for about 20 minutes, starting to understand what it was like to interact with a space like that and quietly reflecting on it, when this older guy with a long white beard comes in and sits down on the other side of the room. A true demonstration of the magic of physic and sound, you can create melodies in your ears just by subtly moving your head. When you move your head, it changes the way the sound waves hit your ears. When you go into the room, you sit down in the middle and all these tones are hitting your body in all kind of ways. There is a light sculpture in the middle of the room to stimulate your eyes as your ears try to comprehend what you are hearing. They range from super low bass to super high, barely audible and everything in between. The tones go on forever and they never change. 38 pure sine waves are played into a room from four corners.
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