|
|||
B COMPANY
PARADISO/Middle Path: It doesn’t get any more neo-hippie than this, healing didgeridoo music from San Francisco by an award wining didgeridoo tooter. Rounding up 7 different axes, Paradiso arises from the scoffers to do his thing for those that respect and appropriately appreciate it like massage therapists and left leaning healing types. There’s other instrumentation on here as well so don’t be scared into thinking this is way too hippie for you, it might be just what you need to keep from being a national laughing stock.
4 (5th Element)
HEAVY HITTER
PORCUPINE TREE/Nil Recurring: Here’s one for the fans, an ep sized cd that is made up of left overs from their most recent album which seems to be the one hailed as their long awaited break out. With admirers like Robert Fripp along to pull some strings, they keep their moving target status alive and well as the Swedes go so fast they almost run themselves over. Cool cutting edge stuff no matter what you want to call it.
235 (Peaceville)
GALLHAMMER/Ill Innocence: A long way from Pink Lady, this Tokyo trio of gloomy lasses brings to mind the experiments of The Slits and others in which attitude counted for more than instrumental prowess when the idea was first lit around the camp fire. Bringing their gloom out on a grand scale, this stuff is as bleak as Norway death metal. Certainly something you’ll want around the house if you can’t get your sibs to stop with Kylie Minogue already, this is the music that describes why you used to be afraid to go into the basement.
169 (Peaceville)
MARK PUCCI MEDIA
INTERSTATE COWBOY/There’s a Road: As much as we wish the gal on the cover was part of the band, this crew has enough chops that you’re willing to let them slide. This is one of those records that comes out of nowhere, like Chris Thomas’s Louie Prima tribute, and just stops you in your tracks. Original Americana/western swing with a flair and flavor that makes you wonder how and why this is flying so low under the radar, it’s music from the heart with heart that defies and defines the new directions for the genre. A tasty set of real music, it’s a hard to resist charmer that will be an Ipod staple in no time no matter how small your internal memory is. Hot stuff.
(Ranch Ruckus)
TRESERO
BENJAMIN LAPIDUS/Herencia Judia: So, every year around the Jewish holidays, people I know that still go the temple either bitch about how old the music and chants are or else they rave about how it’s all been made contemporary. Good Jewish boy Lapidus takes much of the traditional religious music and makes it sound like something you’d hear coming out of temples in the Spanish Caribbean with his ace Cuban guitar and his first call pals. Perhaps he’s locked onto a special, niche market of discontent ready to blow wide open, perhaps he’s just put a new spin on some old works. Either way, it’s a mighty interesting set and well worth checking out by any music seekers looking for something new to really blow open their ears.
1106
Volume 31/Number 139
March 18, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI