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BLIND RACCOON
FONTAINE BROWN/Tales from the Fence Line: So, here we get the cat the originally recorded Bob Seger hooking up with the Don Dixon gang and letting out a side of him that hasn’t been seen since he was an understudy at Motown recording for Chess. Talk about a checkered past. With roadhouse R&B meeting a veritable history of rock along the way, this is the ultimate rock hipster record of the season, or maybe the year. It’s certainly a kick and a kick in the right direction. There might be an oldies vibe at the core but the Dixon bunch add the right soupcon of irreverent reverence and make it all work the way a top shelf out of the way treat should. Check it out.
(Manatee)
DELTA GROOVE PRODUCTIONS
CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNIN’ MALCOLM/2 Man Wrecking Crew: You have to be in the moment with younger tastes to get exactly what’s going on here as two blues based cats with impeccable pedigrees join forces under David Z’s ear and create a minimalist jam that raises the roof in it’s own right. Raising the kind of racket that is born in juke joints with budgets for little more than a guitar/drum duo, these cats are so on point it might just make your blood run cold. A trip back in time for pomo ears that want to get to know the down home side of the blues that documentaries never show.
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LORI HEHR PUBLIC RELATIONS
NOSOUND/Lightdark: Seeming to take it’s cue from the ambient/goth scene in Chicago a decade back, this Italian confection of alt.art rock loves to genre splice with abandon as it proceeds to take something from everywhere as it picks up speed. Not the kind of thing that will make believers out of those that don’t want to be part of this underground, it’s a lot like what Lou Reed might have given us if he hadn’t taken Clive Davis’ money and slipped on the golden handcuffs that went with the check. Wildly interesting, but not in a train wreck kind of way.
(Kscope)
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
SOUND OF THE WORLD PRESENTS Beyond the Horizon/various: He gets to do cool compilations like this and you don’t because Charlie Gillett has been a musical brand name since before most of you were alive and he knows his stuff. He’s cooled off that veddy Briddish thing that made him a bit of pain in the ass in the 70s and now he’s added a sense of humor to his Englash pedantness making it more palatable. Here, he serves up a twofer of offbeat world music offering a bunch of known quantities interstitially to keep you along for the ride as he charts the unknown for you. Give this set a solid spin and your credentials as the world beat hipster on your block will be unassailable. And it’s fun to play too.
5144288632 (Warner Classics & Jazz)
JUANECO Y SU COMBO/Masters of Chicha V. 1: It’s a totally nuts record with a back story that sounds like a subplot of “Romancing the Stone” complete with drugs and plane crashes in South America. Suffice it to say, this crew turned it out without knowing about the rules or thinking their were any and made primitive music that kicked ass. Coming out now under the Barbes aegis, you know this is some right on South American music or they wouldn’t have bothered with it. As your new pomo wings are spreading out over lost 60s psych classics, bite the bark, swig the Kool Aid and join the party. Wild music for open ears looking for a good time they might have otherwise overlooked.
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A FILLAL/$1.99: As tough of a city as Rio can be, Rio hip hop is as different from Sao Paulo’s rap scene as our whole east/west stuff here. Infused with Rio’s softer side, this might be the kind of stuff that breaks through to gringo ears. Certainly college kids at upper middle class schools unaffected by the current economic problems will take to this as they seek out some revolution for the hell of it. Delightfully different stuff that is sure to turn heads to the new generation working the new frontier in Brazil.
(Verge)
Volume 31/Number 344
October 9, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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