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H E F F I E L D - S T A R - By David Dunn
WHEN
the sun stopped shining quite as brightly for his old band
Robert
Cohen decided to do something for himself. The result was a
flurry of solo activity behind closed doors, an eclectic album,
and another one on it's way and a new genre of music he has
branded as "Mufty".
Few musicians would be brave enough to claim to have devised
a whole new style of music.
But
for former 'Indian Rope Trick' activist Rob Cohen there seems
to have been little else for it, so varied is the nature of
his debut album.
The
beginnings of 'Written In The Sky' lie in Cornwall where Cohen
had gone to catch the eclipse, 'Honeybees & Butterflies',
for example, was penned outside a tent and is presented in its
raw form.
"I
don't think I really set out to do anything specific apart from
try and break the mold," says the Sheffielder, who attempts
to sum it up as 'Jazz Bass Acoustic Grunge Psychedelic Classical
Industrial Hip Hop Pop,'
"There's
no agenda, just discovery. I am searching for a new pigeonhole
and I think I am finding it! Remember the Baggy Scene and the
Trip Hop Scene and the Grunge Scene.... Well I am starting the
Mufty Scene. There is only me in it at the moment, but hopefully
in years to come maybe I will be seen as The Godfather Of Mufty."
If
Cohen's first long play outing is anything to go by Mufty is
not an easy style to define.
"I
suppose because I listen to so many different styles of music,
from Rap to Classical and Grunge and Indie and most styles in
between I didn't want to get trapped in that thing that most
bands get trapped in where you are either a funk band or Indie
or Glam or Whatever, restrictions are terrible and I think you
end up writing in a paint by numbers kind of way."
"Things
seem so tame these days within the music industry, I think something
needs to happen. Everyone has been harping on about this Millennium,
but nothings really kicked in yet. The movie industry is fresh
at the moment with boundaries being broke all the time, the
same thing needs to happen in the music industry. Underground
is where it will come from but when?"
"Cohen"
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