a sonic sculptor, sound designer and improviser living in southern california

Presenter of Empty Space art radio on Sheffield Live 93.2FM

Always hunting for new tracks: the weird & the wonderful, the perverse & the insane, the revelatory & the sublime.

Voodelic—Little Earl, keyboardist Ross Rice, bassist Colin Almquist, and Eric and Dan Cartwright on guitar and drums, respectively—stir together soul-soaked R&B and funk, brain-warping psychedelia, and flat-out hard rock.  
The band connect with each other in a way that can only be described as rousing and brimstone-spiritual; the rapport seems straight out of a big tent revival. Little Earl's singing is articulate and righteous soul rage, with words that chase contemporary targets with Biblical methods, politicized and gospelized in equal measure. Bassist Colin Almquist, and drummer Dan Cartwright's snappy, syncopated, big-bottom grooves anchor the soaring drama of the group harmonies and Ross Rice’s organ, a blend of sternum-punishing precision and ethereal grace. When guitarist Eric Cartwright rips a squealing solo right out of an ‘80s glam/metal tune over a groove that sounds like Little Feat or the Meters played by Helmet, nobody’s apologizing for anything. It’s all in there, and they mean every bit of it.


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