Caveman Hughscore

(Tim/Kerr)
by Clarendon Lavorich

Here’s a weird one. Caveman Shoestore is (apparently) an amazingly tight and talented band from Oregon. Hugh Hopper is the fuzz bass player from Soft Machine, Isotope, et al. He’s also written some truly strange music. They got together, formed Caveman Hughscore, and decided to play a group of Hugh’s tunes, some which had never been attempted, as they were composed on a computer. The result? An intensely confusing blend of stumbling rhythms, disjointed melodies that tell a story immediately, and a bass sound that bottoms out somewhere around 12 Hz. “Nothing matters more than mattering more than nothing. Nothing else matters.”