Review: Samus
Samus “Desengano” (Crucial Blast) I have a trashcan not too far away from me. I throw away so many CDs every month that I sort of feel bad for it. It’s hungry but I just keep feeding it with these…
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Various: Shanti Project Collection 2
“ Various Artists” “Shanti Project Collection 2” (Badman Records) Seven individual female performers strapped with an electric ax and a tube amp. Very mellow, very groovy and a very very good listen. Of the seven a couple to point out.:…
Review: sHeavy
sHeavy “Synchronized” (The Music Cartel) I don’t even know where to begin with this record. It bathes in 20 year old water and comes up thinking it smells like roses. Technically nothing is wrong with it. It’s full of chunky riffs and…
Review: Simon H. Fell
Simon H. Fell “Composition No. 30” (Bruce’s Fingers) This is experimental, new music from Britain. The third release in a series, Fell is here documenting on the double-disc release a middle ground between pure improvisation and notation using good-sized ensembles.…
Review: Smoking Popes Tribute
Various “Smoking Popes Tribute” (Double Zero Records) I didn’t even know the Popes broke up. I always kind of liked them, didn’t you? I mean, “Need You Around” was pretty cool. They were punk-inspired pop before such a thing was…
Review: Soul Obsession
Various Artists “Soul Obsession” (Cookin’ Records) What’s all this then? LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking Label is tossing out this nice tasty bit of 70’s soul on it’s outlet “Cookin’ Records”. It’s all heavy grooves with nice tid bits of percussion and ear…
Review: Party Of Helicopters
Party Of Helicopters “Please Believe It” (Velocette) Call me a rube, but I’ve never heard Party Of Helicopters. Always wondered, but never heard any talk or read any descriptive reviews. So I went uninformed until this very moment. And goddamn,…
Review: Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel “Up” (Geffen) “Darkness” is the first track on this album from Peter Gabriel. It has Tony Levin on bass, three percussionists and two drummers credited with guitars by David Rhodes, who has worked with Robert Fripp. It’s like…
Review: Pierre Cartier
Pierre Cartier “Dis, Blaise: Chanson du Transsibérien” (Dame) On this CD, the accompaniment of reeds (Jean Derome), viola (Jean René), trombone (Tom Walsh), guitar (Bernard Falaise) and drums (Pierre Tanguay), Pierre Cartier sings the epic poem by Blaise Cendrars. This…
Review: Pigface
Pigface “Easy Listening…” (Underground, Inc.) Martin Atkins continues to use Pigface as one of his many centers from which to push the envelope and sophistication of industrial rock. It is a testament to the success of this experiment in a…