Joe Grimm - Brian Cloud

Joe Grimm (formerly known as the Wind-Up Bird) is a composer/ performer based in Providence, RI known with remarkable releases on Music Fellowship Label. The seed for this music was planted when I participated in one of Glenn Branca's 100-guitar symphonies. The sound was incredible: A deafening, electric choir incorporating so many voices that the each element was subsumed within the group sound. But I was struck even more by the unrealized potential in Branca's approach; the sound was separated into several identifiable voices, so that the impression given was of a conventional counterpoint-driven music.