Daniel Higgs

With the looks of the heavily bearded tattooed prophet, Daniel Higgs emerged through the early-’80s Baltimore/D.C. hardcore punk picture as an underground icon using a near-mythological position. He sharpened his tooth within the music picture being a wild-eyed vocalist within the renowned Baltimore hardcore group Reptile Home. Making a dark psychedelic audio with early-’80s hardcore energy and looks, they earned a good following along with a long lasting reputation because of debauchery at their concert events. The group disbanded in 1986 and Higgs, who was simply elevated on Yeats and Dylan Thomas, became associated with the Apathy Press poets and began carrying out open-mic poetry readings. He was released to previous Null Established bassist John Chriest, who developed tape loops for Higgs to try out together with his spoken phrases. One night, both made a decision to jam on the whim, and after finding a solid chemistry, they teamed up using a drummer and guitarist and quickly progressed into a brand-new music group. As the business lead singer from the definitive music group Lungfish, Higgs’ stage existence was component Jim Morrison stream-of-consciousness poetry and component G.G. Allin unbridled lunacy. In his displays, he evoked specters of Franz Kafka and Walt Whitman in his lyrics while executing outrageous shenanigans like moving his eyes back again such as a madman and attempting to draw his very own tongue out, or stabbing himself within the forehead using a protection pin while spouting rants regarding the Antichrist. Some consider his unabashed freakouts non-sensical; others consider them an art from the purest kind. After ten information with Dischord, Higgs dabbled in conceptual artwork, formed a aspect project along with his sibling known as Cone of Light, and developed many books of poetry. His initial solo record was documented in 2006 and released on Holy Hill and mixed minimal meditative hillbilly blues, Eastern mysticism, and lyrics about physical and ethereal demise as a result of demons. The attractively packed Atomic Yggdasil Tarot premiered by Thrill Jockey in June 2007, and combines a reserve of his artwork and poetry using a Compact disc of abstract lo-fi instrumental drones, using the purpose of conjuring a tarot-like power when experienced concurrently. 2010 saw the discharge of State God: Tracks & Poems of Daniel Higgs, a two-volume group of Higgs’ lunatic sermon poems, and in 2013 a Latitudes program surfaced offering the 23-minute yoga on banjo and body organ “The Godward Method.”