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Artist
Charles Moothart
12+ albums
Garage RockrockGarage Punkindie rockpunk rock
about
"We live in a world of identity and identifiers, in spite of the lack of mystery that first seduced us. The shadow behind the curtain. The blown-out photo. The blown out sound. The need to submit for the deeper experience. The feeling of maximal bliss once a pain threshold is crossed. But it’s today that we have decided that a clarity of individual identity carries a new importance. Some default to their own names, not unlike how when every person in the world suddenly has a camera on them at all times takes photos of themselves. The thoughtlessness! When someone actually reaches into the void in search of their own identity, they enter into a vast world and have to begin the task of chiseling away at the dodecahedronic mass of possibilities that come with facing oneself. And who wants to be themselves if they don’t have to be? Songs for example have the enormous responsibility of carrying the meaning of both the writer and the listener! And it’s this, the triangulation of meaning and definition that is the genesis of the magic that spellbinds us in music. It is only successfully crafted with this abstract relationship in mind. A failure is when there is a lack of imagination. A lack of consciousness. An artist like Charles Moothart presents a gravity in this statement of “new” identity by expressing that because he has offered multiple examples of work dedicated to the more mysterious and oblique, its time now for him to assert his Self as the pillar of the experience. F
