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Moore: Motive Force
Hegel, in his Phenomenology of Spirit, claimed that history is created and moved by the interlay between the oppressor and the oppressedthe maser and the slave. The master subjugates the slave and eventually the slave rises up against the master. History, to Hegel, is a dynamic interplay, almost a battle, between two groups that struggle to be recognized by one another. The slave wants to be recognized or even respected by the master and eventually this process leads to mutual recognition. The motive force that moves history is recognition, rising from the background to the forefront. In the liner notes to Franklin Moores new album Motive Force, Moore claims that the songs herein are essentially one mans view of the world. If that is the case, Moore sees the world as a beautiful, tumultuous, fractured whole that is also somehow in harmony with its parts. Moore essentially sees the world as a complex interplay between forces, chaos and discord transforming into harmony and intelligibility. Basically every song has this essential interplay. The whole album is instrumental and everything is performed on one guitar by one man. It is amazing then to hear the complex development of each song. The danger of so much of instrumental and solo guitar work is that it can quickly become self-indulgent and pointless. Songs will often meander around for a couple of minutes repeating various phrases like a monomaniacal lunatic lost for an audience. Moore, however, avoids this unenviable fate focusing less on repeated phrases and more on development of lyrical purpose. Most instrumental music is the equivalent of a bad advertisement: constant repetition of banal slogans meant to endear the song to the listener. Moores music is more similar to a paragraph. There is progression and meaning rather than just repetition. For this Moore is to be commended, and more importantly, recommended. History may be the process of the greater enlargement of recognition, but music is the process of transformation from noise to harmony. The motive force of history is respect; the motive force of musical progression is the uncovering of beauty where it did not previously reside. Moores album is a great exemplar of this. From the simple contraption of wood and strings and his own body, Moore is able to create order out of chaos and beauty ex nihilo. This album is elemental music and should not be overlooked.
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