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McCAIN & CO.
TOM HEMBY/Chasing the Wind: First call session cat comes with a new instrumental album that reflects his religious feelings without any lyrics. The kind of cat that has proven on more than one occasion that he’s up for any challenge pulls it off with a set that leaves you feeling like you did after listening to Michael Hedges without him stroking the strings in the same way. Applying his chart topping, award winning skills to his own material, Hemby’s acoustic guitar experience takes you someplace other than the usual solo guitar set. Anyone that’s a fan for first rate guitar music should be able to get into this set with very little prompting. Well done.
(Autumn)
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
TICKLAH/Ticklah vs. Alexrod: One minute he’s creating the best selling reggae record of all time, the next minute he’s mixing it up for Brit brats like Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse. What can you expect from this cat next? How about a chill/dub set that mixes his organic/electronic interests in an over the top fashion that finds him taking things to the next level. There’s nothing here that you would expect as he reggaeizes Latin music, brings in some familiar rap voices and continues to expand the underground chipping away at the sub-strata. Delightfully wild set that young and restless ones will get immediately.
1015 (Easy Star)
ROOTS OF CHICHA/various: Ah, urban migration. It wasn’t just from the Delta to Chicago with blues men. When Peru had an oil boom in the early 70’s, a lot of rural people came to the urban centers bringing their indigenous music with them and mingling it with the prevailing musical action of the day to create a compelling, local sound that has the crisp vibe keeping it lively now. Put together by a later day musicologist/musical adventurer, the best of the times as per his taste and his ability to track down rights holders gives us gringos a first look at this vibrant sound and time. Looks like something cool came from darkest Peru beside Paddington.
(Barbes)
HABIB KOITE/Afriki: Yep, there’s world beat and there’s world beat. When you’re pals with Bonnie Raitt and Pee Wee Ellis as well as appear on David Letterman, you have to be that extra kind of world beat, like Koite is. Keeping in the griot tradition of his native Mali, Koite is a traditionalist that wants to push the boundaries as forward as he can. This album was slow in coming and the time it took to make it right is evident. A real ear opener of a set, this is music for the heart, mind and feet. A tasty excursion to Africa with a sure footed guide world beaters are sure to dig.
5 (Cumbancha)
SHOUT! FACTORY
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER/Brain Salad Surgery: The home of their bag breaking “Karn Evil 9″ which took them and prog off on another direction, this deluxe reissue shows how forward thinking the group was at the time. From the Giger cover to the last note, this was what mind blowing was like in 1973 before prog was recast as dinosaurs by insurgent punks. A wide ranging set that covered a lot of ground but still covered it all well, this might have been the real landmark ELP record no matter where your fave tracks lie.
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Volume 30/Number 303
August 30, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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