I know what I’ll be doing in
the year 2172: chilling in the literal afterlife. What about you guys? For Bob
Bucko Jr. and ARU, they’ll be fresh of their sold-out, co-headlining European
tour, each decompressing in a separate mansion while already germinating the
ideas of their next collaboration. Bodies full of legal, mind-altering
substances. Evolved craniums pulsing with creative energy.
Imagine that, Europe still existing in 2172! So rich.
BBJr. and ARU – aka long-running Dubuque project of Randy Carter –
predict the future here on Europe 2172,
an imagined artifact of that glorious triumph of live performance. Bucko
tinkers with his gadgets and guitars, his pedals gleaming in the setting sun,
melding generous ragas with future meditative jams, all but forecasting what we’ll
all be listening to 150 years from now. (Well, those of us who haven’t been
raptured, that is.) ARU dares to turn the tables on BBJr., entering with some
milky dub that curdles and spills all over the gears and circuits, clouding
everything purply, shimmying and shuffling in dizzying chaos. But this is what the
2172 kids are clamoring for – or their clones are anyway, who’s to say which is
which, especially from a legal standpoint. ARU delivers. BBJr. delivers.
Our future is once again less bleak. Our past selves from 2021 are
grateful that either Bucko and Carter are clairvoyant or time travelers. Either
way, we benefit.
https://bobbuckojr.bandcamp.com/
https://arumusic.bandcamp.com/
https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan