Three releases with a strong infusion of Afro-beat in their bloodstream. Comes with an inner sleeve full of photos of the ornamental emblem statues found in small American towns as mascots giant wasps, corns, pineapples and so on.īCUC Millions of Us (On the Corner) + Les Sympathics de Porto Novo Benin Les Sympathics de Porto Novo Benin – Volume 2 (Acid Jazz) + Tony Allen Jazz Is Dead 18 (Jazz Is Dead) Angular yet mesmeric, astonishing and strange, Trouble on Big Beat Street is right out-there yet oddly welcoming. They are spiky, pared-back, post-punk-meets-Beefheart blues numbers, smeared in the electronic synthesis of band member Gagarin, and occasional no-wave-jazz brass. These songs have been played by the band one time, as they were recorded.” This might not work for most, but the sheer rawness of these songs is compulsive. The PR sheet quotes him, stating that the album is based on the principle, borrowed from Van Dyke Parks, that “a song is best the first time it’s played… repetition allows error to enter in. Like the late, lamented Fall, age only prods Thomas to revel in possibility. ![]() ![]() Far from it, Trouble on Big Beat Street, is as forward-pushing and faintly unhinged as anything they’ve ever done. ![]() Most bands of this tenure (they’ve been around since 1975) with a leader, David Thomas, who’s 70-years-old, might fancy a triumphal tour playing their greatest (non-)hits or celebrating their seminal 1978 album The Modern Dance.
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