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HOWLIN WUELF MEDIA
SHIMMERS/The Way You Shine: Pretty much a new take on the local superstar album that wasn’t. Recorded in the 90’s before the members scattered for victories elsewhere, this Philly tyro folk rock supergroup could have been on to something on these terms if the cards were dealt the right way. Revisited by the original members, if you dug the things they went on to, your sure to dig this as well. Nascent but well formed, it right up the Americana alley for a real good time.
206001 (Transit of Venus)
TROLLEYVOX/Present The Karaoke Meltdowns: A head trip of an album, the likes of which you haven’t heard in quite some time. Mixing melancholy from the 60s and 80s in lush setting just made for headphones, this is wild dorm room music for midterm and final freak outs. With expert production guiding the way, this is a smoking highly alternative set that opens the ears and does wild things while bouncing around in there. Hot.
6002 (Transit of Venus)
SIX DEGREES
DO/Day Off ep 2: Another set of jazzy soundscapes from this well traveled duo hit home quite nicely. Reducing albums to risk free sampling zones works well for new and underground acts like this well deserving of wider repute in an ever harder to crack market.
7043
ZAMAN 8/Suryaghati ep 2: Multiculti world beat duo comes back with what otherwise would be the second half of an album if physical product was available. A wonderful set of genre hopping mixmastering that goes all the way around the world and back in a few tracks, sometimes within a track. Hard to pin down, this musical shapeshifter is a real Gasser for forward thinking world beat ears.
7053
WORLDISC
THINK GLOBAL-TANGO/various: Tango for today by way of Lou Reed and Kurt Weill filtered through occasional electronica. The music retains it’s passion and fuego as it looks forward and these new interpretations and songs are sure to angry up the blood in classic tango fashion. Wily and reckless, this set takes tango back to the streets and lights your fire. Hot stuff, really!
103 (World Music Network)
Volume 30/Number 145
March 25, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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