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Serge Rogalski: This Is Not a Blues

by Sue Yang
July 9, 2026

A title can sometimes work like a trapdoor. This Is Not a Blues begins by denying a form that never quite disappears. Serge Rogalski's live studio EP does not play blues in any conventional sense, but the blues remains present as residue: in the bent pressure of the guitar, in the blunt force of repeated figures, in the bodily insistence of pulse, and in the refusal to let abstraction become weightless. The title is therefore less a disclaimer than a ...