August 15, 2007

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		FEATURED NEW RELEASES Thierry Muller Eric Copeland Gozalo! Vol. 2 (Various) Niagra Wild Magnolias Luke Vibert Mira Calix Tyvek Nina Nastasia & Jim White Baia degli Angeli 1977-1978 Sun Ra Signal Morton Feldman   Oh No Spencer Moore Frank Bretschneider ALSO AVAILABLE F'ed Up (12" available) Dinosaur L Sunn O))) u-Ziq Motel Lovers (Trikont comp.) Mexican Boleros (Trikont comp.)

		AUG  Sun 12 Mon 13 Tues 14 Wed 15 Thurs 16 Fri 17 Sat 18   WIN TICKETS TO SEE BISHOP ALLEN Hot on the heels of their great new album The Broken String, Bishop Allen will playing the Bowery Ballroom before heading out on a national tour that won't see them back in New York for quite a while. Also on Saturday's bill is a solid line-up of performers to see them off, including the Mobius Band and Page France. Other Music has two pairs of tickets to give away, and all you have to do to enter is email tickets@othermusic.com. Please leave a daytime phone number where you can be reached. We'll be notifying the two winners on Thursday, August 16. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 BOWERY BALLROOM: 6 Delancey NYC

		$20.99 CD   THIERRY MULLER Rare & Unreleased 1974-1984 (Fractal) "Caravane" "Mon Pote" I was just in the South of France hanging out with my friend Armand Thomassian, and Thierry Muller came up in conversation. He talked about Thierry Muller as one of the great French artists, outside of the well-known Gallic singer/songwriters. I was trying to remember one of my personal favorite French artists too. "Uh...I can't recall his name...uh, oh yeah, he did the record 10 Suicides! It's like French Suicide!" But, I still couldn't remember the guy's name. Turns out we were both talking about the same person: Thierry Muller! He's also know as Ilitch (the name I was blanking on), and in the bands Arcane (with Marc Barety and Pascal Potain), Breaking Point (with Alain Gaillot), Ruth (with Ruth Ellyeri, Patrick Muller and Patrick Renard), and Crash (with Philippe Doray), all featured here in unreleased track form. Here's the quick breakdown: Arcane sounds like minimal synth-Spacemen 3 with a dose of Can's "Aumgn." The excellent 28-minute Ilitch cut sounds like a coldwave cover of a track off of Royal Trux's Twin Infinitives. All of this stuff is quality, but I have to say that Ruth was the big surprise; it's like a raw-ass, garage version of Kim Gordon-led, Evol/Sister-era Sonic Youth but with its own French charm/snot embedded within the snarl. Wish there was more than just two tracks. The most recent material here is from the band Crash (1984). It has slightly less lo-fi production and is altogether the lost "friendly" stuff on this CD. "File Ou Passe" sounds like an Olympic theme song made with a Commodore 64! There are lots of lonely synth dudes who make records, but many sound like they could've just as easily been lab technicians or TV repairmen, and are about as fun to listen to. Then there are dudes like Thierry Muller, along with Chrome, Suicide and Monoton, who are feeling the f**k out of what they are doing. Expressionists, basically. They are taking a risk and discovering things along the road of expression. Excellent. [SM]

		$13.99 CD $9.99 mp3   ERIC COPELAND Hermaphrodite (Paw Tracks) "Green Buritto" "Spacehead" Long a fixture in New York's more experimentally-inclined landscape care of his work with Black Dice (and Terrestrial Tones, with Animal Collective's Dave Portner), Eric Copeland is definitely no stranger to forward-thinking music fans throughout the city and beyond. And while he's been a fundamental part of Black Dice from their earliest days as a blistering and highly confrontational hardcore band to their most recent outings that centered on heavily rhythmic electronic pastiches, Hermaphrodite is Copeland's first ever solo release. Equally reminiscent of his group tracks while forging ahead into more abstract territory, the 12 songs gathered herein find Copeland reflecting on his past work while exploring wholly new ideas, sonics, and textures. Beginning with what sounds like alien fanfare, the title track bounds through an assemblage of synth bursts and carefully placed noise throbs, all buttressed by an uneasy percussive bounce that undulates throughout the piece. From there, Copeland courses through the abstract "Green Burrito," a tune stuffed with echoing vocals, mutated guitars, and near-pop hooks left in the sun to warp. Elsewhere, pieces like "Spacehead" encompass bent electronics and instrumentals in ways that almost suggest an Explorer Series LP created by and for busted robots. Better still is "FKD," with its twisting tones that call to mind digitized horn phrasings that sound unlike anything in Copeland's lengthy Black Dice oeuvre. More than just a simple side project created in the gaps of his main band's recording schedule, Hermaphrodite is an assured and thoroughly bizarre debut, one that showcases Eric Copeland's ability to transform strange and oft-indescribable sounds into compelling, original, and endlessly listenable pieces. [MC]

		$19.99 CD $29.99 LP   VARIOUS ARTISTS Gozalo! Bugalu Tropical Vol. 2 (Vampisoul) "El Diri Bop" Tito Chicoma y su Orq. "Mulata Rumbera" Company Quinto There hasn't even been enough time for the first volume of Gozalo! to wear out its welcome on my stereo, and already Vampisoul delivers a follow-up that's just as good! Once again, the 28-track compilation dives into late '60s Peruvian boogaloo, focusing on the output of producer Manuel A. Silvestre's MAG label, a driving force behind the rise of the shing-a-ling in this South American country. You won't find names like Joe Bataan or Ray Baretto listed on the back cover, but it's a thrill to discover lesser-known artists creating music that's just as fiery and ecstatic as their Nuyorican counterparts. The Peruvian's approach is a little more freestyle and jazzy with less of an American soul influence, but what results is absolutely soulful. There's no lack of rolling pianos, blistering horns, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and plenty of spirited vocalists and performers including Mario Allison, Tito Chicoma, Nilo Espinosa, Nico Estrada, Alfredo Linares, Silvestre Montes, Charlie Palomares, and Willie Marambio. Lovers of the first volume of Gozalo!, boogaloo and Latin music in general shouldn't hesitate. If these tracks don't get your toes tapping, you don't have a pulse. [GH]

		$22.99 CD   NIAGARA Afire (Performance) "City Walk" "Afire" Legit reissue of the third and final Niagara album. Adding bass to the mix on this '72 go-round, this German ensemble, led by Klaus Weiss, lays it down with five drummers and percussionists in one of the tightest, most groovin' records ever made. The entire thing is one giant break, intense polyrhythms from stem to stern. Imagine five copies of Brian Auger's "Listen Here" battling it out with the Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache" as a marching band raids a Guitar Center and cleans them out of claves, wood blocks, shakers, and cowbells, and you're close to what's going on here. Almost single-handedly reclaims the concept of a drum circle away from rhythmless dirtheads whose notion of funk starts with "I Feel Good" and ends at Umphrey's McGee. It's refreshing to hear music this single-minded of purpose, and unbelievable that it's been out of circulation for 35 years. Time to right those wrongs, friends. [DM]

		$18.99 CDx2   WILD MAGNOLIAS Wild Magnolias / They Call Us Wild (Sunnyside) "Two Way Pak e Way" "They Call Us Wild" This excellent double-CD plus 68-page PDF book set of Wild Magnolias' first two albums from '74 and '75 is long overdue. Though these New Orleans legends are considered to be more of a traditional Mardi Gras tribal band, their sound, arrangements and energy has much in common with the likes of the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Allen Touissant, and the Meters, all of the aforementioned infusing the city's swampy, sweaty atmosphere with the soul and funk sounds from up north, and the Native American rhythms that roamed the hills. More of a performance group than a proper band per se, Wild Magnolias were unique for their time, and are still something of a funky oddity today. The large vocal ensemble accompany their call-and-response street chants with various percussion -- congas, tambourines, triangles, cowbells, etc. -- while most of the "funkiness" comes from arranger Willie Tee and his New Orleans Project (keyboards, sax, guitar, bass and drums). On occasion, Tee's ARP synthesizer adds a spacey vibe to some of the songs, providing an interesting sense of dimension. The combination of the two bands build an interesting bridge between authentically ethnic and undeniably contemporary for the time -- check the song "Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right)." With elaborate costumes, you could also draw a line from their stage presence to that of Funkadelic and Earth Wind & Fire, though Wild Magnolias are seeped deep in ritual and ancestry as opposed to the gaze of the future; their chief, Bo Dollis, is a figure adorned in feathers, with headdresses, beads, and wings. This southern psychedelic soul is some of the genre's most underrated yet most revered. If you're into the cross-cultural expression of, say, Cymande, Otha Turner, or Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, you'll probably find this an interesting intersection. [DG]

		$14.99 CD $9.99 mp3   LUKE VIBERT Chicago, Detroit, Redruth (Planet Mu) "Chicago, Detroit, Redruth" "God" Luke Vibert is probably one of the most prolific and consistently enjoyable electronic producers of the last 10 years. He hasn't slowed down or detoured from his catchy brand of breakbeat compositions, starting from his early days on Mo'Wax to his most recent side project Ace of Clubs, or here, his newest full-length under his proper name for Planet Mu. The title says it all; this album is pure Chicago, Detroit, and Redruth (Cornwall, UK), where the inimitable Mr. Vibert grew up. Quirky and slightly blippy but with nice acid bubbles, subtle vocoder vocals, and a bouncy swing of a back beat, Vibert has always found the balance between silly and serious, sometimes from track to track, and other times within one song. (I like that every time I listen to him, he makes me feel good, goofy even. I want to bounce around like the beats he puts together.) Chicago, Detroit, and Redruth is a continuation from his Warp full-length, Yoseph, but with more of his Kerrier District project's acid tickles. Sonically touching on genres that he helped establish (drum-n-bass, downtempo, acid, trip-hop, IDM), this album feels like a bit of throwback -- partly due to the sprinkling of old school samples -- but it still feels quite fresh. Guess that's the reason he's still around kicking out the jams. [DG]

		$23.99 CD $24.99 LP   MIRA CALIX Eyes Set Against the Sun (Warp) "Way You Are When" "Umbra / Penumbra" Under the nom de laptop Mira Calix, South African-born, Suffolk-dwelling producer (as well as one-time DJ, publicist, and promoter) Chantal Passamonte has made a lengthy career out of being Warp Records' undersung heroine. With a penchant for plying terse beats with bucolic strings, voices, field recordings, and ephemeral samples, she has thus far bequeathed two great full-lengths and a grip of EPs and singles that have traced her subtle transition into a realm that mingles musique concrete, folk ambience, and occasional dancefloor programmatics to oft-dizzying success. Back now with her third proper long-player Eyes Set Against the Sun, Mira Calix once again showcases a set of songs that spotlight her increasingly thoughtful and beauteous composition skills. Calix has always had an uncanny ability to take well-worn sounds and give them an original spin, and here she proves from the outset that her abilities haven't diminished in the least. Combining the gentle lapping of water with errant violins and the reverberant sounds of a children's choir, "Because to Why" provides an eerie introduction to Eyes Set Against the Sun. She switches gears a bit on "The Stockholm Syndrome," with her distant voice riding atop an insistent thump and punctuating clamor. Later still, the strings take center stage for "The Way You Are When," offering a calming counterpoint to the tense clanks and stomps that gradually develop. Highlighting a compositional talent that's every bit as unique as it is unheralded, Mira Calix's Eyes Set Against the Sun is another success for Passamonte, one that longtime fans and intrigued newcomers alike would be well advised to seek out. [MC]

		$7.99 45x2   TYVEK Summer Burns (What's Your Rupture?) "Needles Drop" "Give It Up" Two 7"s worth of the finest garage pop/DIY budget punk this country has to offer right now. Detroit's Tyvek combine the f**k you aesthetic of Electric Eels, the ingenious punk of the Swell Maps, and the perfect pop sensibility of the Buzzcocks to create...Tyvek. The trebly buzz and rush of "Give It Up" and "Needles Drop" exist somewhere in a magical land where safety-pinned punks walk down the street, hand in hand, with anorak-clad, C86-obsessed pop enthusiasts. This makes me as excited as when I first heard the Fall-Outs or Supercharger. Which is...REALLY excited. Once again, alienation and boredom creates the best music. My favorite record of the summer. [AK]

		$13.99 CD $9.99 mp3   NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE You Follow Me (FatCat) "I Write Down Lists" "The Day I Would Bury You" Australian percussionist and Dirty Three mainstay Jim White and New York-based singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia are hardly strangers, with the pair having already collaborated on a couple Nastasia's great solo albums. And sure enough, those tracks that featured White's unmistakably singular drums were the out and out high points of both 2003's Run to Ruin and last year's sublime, skeletal On Leaving. Back again in tandem, the two now release You Follow Me, a full-on duo disc that finds Nastasia's incredible voice and delicate acoustic guitars squaring off against White's limber drums, with each folk strum and breathy whisper carving out space amidst ferocious waves of percussive power. Unencumbered by any additional instrumentation, You Follow Me finds each musician stretching their playing to arrive at a precarious balance between poised control and manic, emotive blasts. Tracks like "The Day I Would Bury You" begin easy enough, with simple chords matching against kick drum hits. At times complementing Nastasia's bare songwriting, and at others swelling to a full mass of fills that threaten to drown her voice, White forms the perfect counterpoint as the vocals reach a fevered pitch. Elsewhere, as on the laconic "There Is No Train," White's scattershot strikes recede into the background, as Nastasia gently tugs on her guitar and sings achingly. Better still are the moments like "I Write Down Lists," where the rhythms fall in and out of time with Nastasia's tune, rising to a full wallop only to punctuate when absolutely essential. In all, You Follow Me is every bit as spirited a collaboration as one would expect, with both players dialoguing capably and effortlessly, matching each move to create a brief album that's heartwarming in its off the cuff simplicity. [MC]

		$24.99 CD w/ Book   DANIELE BALDELLI PRESENTS Baia degli Angeli 1977-78: The Legendary Italian Discoteque of the 70s (Amrkord / Mediane) "Surprise" Andre Gagnon "Chain Reaction" Sweet Lady Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli is best known for creating the cosmic sound that was popular in the European underground during the early '80s, crafting a psychedelic dance experience through his slow tempo-ed (tracks were often intentionally played at the wrong speed) mixes of disco and dub with African rhythms, Krautrock, and other avant music -- check the Elaste: Slow Motion Disco review that we ran early this year. Before his legendary five-year stint at the Cosmic nightclub in Lazise, Baldelli held a yearlong residency at the Baia degli Angeli (Bay of Angels), a glamorous multi-floor disco with a breathtaking, panoramic view of the sea, whose famous and fabulous clientele makes it easy to draw comparisons to New York's Studio 54. But the club leaves behind a legacy much closer to that of the Paradise Garage and the Loft, where Italian DJ culture was born, with Baldelli -- and resident Claudio "Mozart" Rispoli -- mixing up genres and styles to a crowd of open minds. Unless you have a time machine or the means to attend the yearly Remember Baia degli Angeli 77-78 party which he and Rispoli throw every June, you won't find a better flashback than this. Unlike the slower BPMs of his Cosmic sets, Baldelli's selection of late-'70s leftfield disco here is quicker paced, with 16 diverse tracks masterfully woven into a live sounding mix that could have been recorded right off the club's system. The set is like a boogie bridge running from New York to Italy with highlights that include the Rhythm Makers' instrumental funk jam "Zone," "Don't You Know Who Did It" from John Forde, the Bombers' dancefloor staple "Don't Stop the Music," Tony Sylvester's moan-filled Italo disco classic "Pazulu" (which leads into some more horny moaning via Cerrone's "Take Me"), Voyage's jungle dance anthem "Point Zero," and spacier cuts like Arpadys' "Monkey Star" and two Black Devil tracks ("H Friend" and "Timing, Forget the Timing"). It comes in one of the most beautiful packages that I've seen in a while: a hardbound book with tons of full-color photographs of the club, flyers and various personalities, and liner notes in Italian and English. This won't be around for very long! [GH]

		$15.99 CDx2   SUN RA Shadows Took Shape (Transparency) "The Shadows Took Shape" "The Shadows Took Shape" Disc 2 Third in a series of lost live recordings of Sun Ra and the Arkestra, date unknown. Given the personnel identified and the heat of these particular sessions, it's assumed that these came from 1972, a particularly exciting time for the group. Crude recording quality doesn't do much to hide the raw brilliance and hyperactive fury of these sessions, including a wonderful take of "Exotic Forest" and a particularly blazing longform improvisation that kicks off disc 2. Personally, it's been a while since I've spent any time with the Arkestra on record, but a few minutes into this disc, as soon as I heard June Tyson start to sing, all the hopes, ebullience and positive feelings I've always associated with the music of Sun Ra came rushing back to the forefront. Essential good times for obsessives and newcomers alike. [DM]

		$16.99 CD   SIGNAL Robotron (Raster Noton) "Robotron" "Sporett" A Raster Noton "supergroup" consisting of Noto, Bretschneider and Bender join forces to create a town-destroying Frankenstein monster. While keeping things open and democratic, Robotron surprises with aggressive, high-end funk that still manages to showcase the respective members' special talents. Equally reminiscent of Cybotron, the video game Robotron, and the pounding experimental acid of early Mika Vainio or current Sleeparchive. [SM]

		$13.99 CD   MORTON FELDMAN For Bunita Marcus (Sub Rosa) "For Bunita Marcus" In the liner notes to For Bunita Marcus, pianist Stephane Ginsburgh describes the experience of playing or listening to Morton Feldman as "a sense of infinity within a finite space." It's an apt description of the rigorously calculated sense of timing and deep concentration that permeates most of Feldman's work. Written just two years before his passing in 1985, For Bunita Marcus is a perfect example of late-period Feldman focusing on loosely repetitive phrasing which slowly unravels during the course of the piece's 70-plus minutes, adding and subtracting individual notes and chords to create a sense of movement which is only discernable over long periods of time and with a deep commitment to listening. After all, for someone who composed works lasting over six hours (see "String Quartet No. 2" from 1983), 71 minutes is only a glimpse. Recorded in 2006 in Brussels on a Bosendorfer 225, Stephane Ginsburgh's interpretation of For Bunita Marcus is precise and carefully laid out, but the magic is not in the individual gestures but what those gestures add up to as they slowly draw you into silence. [KH]

		$14.99 CD   OH NO Dr. No's Oxperiment (Stones Throw) "Bouncers" "Cassette" When we last heard from Madlib's lil' brother Oh No, he was cutting up lost reels from Galt MacDermot's basement for his Exodus into Unheard Rhythms CD. For his latest, Dr. No's Oxperiment, he borrows LPs from Now Again honcho Egon's collection of rare music from Greece, Lebanon, Italy, and Turkey. Oh No chops, loops, layers, and reshapes these various bits into a whole new composition of his own imagination, combining them with his own programming and playing. It's much in the same vein as Madlib's Beat Konducta series or, of course, Dilla's Donuts. With this release, Oh No firmly takes his place in the producer's arena; 28 instrumentals are smashed together to create this trippy sonic journey from jazz to rock, psych and funk. Any fan of any of the above mentioned would no doubt enjoy this too. [DG]

		$13.99 CD $9.99 mp3   SPENCER MOORE Spencer Moore (Tompkins Square) "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" "Jimmy Sutton" Born in 1919 in a remote corner of North Carolina, Spencer Moore has been playing simple rural country blues since the age of 14, which puts close to 75 years under his belt leading up to the recording and release of his debut album, just out on the Tompkins Square label. Indeed, Moore is a minor figure in the genre, having performed on a bill with the Carter Family back in the '30s and recording a couple of tracks for Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins in the '50s being his two main brushes with fame. But raw country blues is an oral tradition, best heard on back porches and Sunday picnics throughout the mountains of the Virginias and the Carolinas, and even the legends lived and died in relative obscurity. But this album needs no caveats and no excuses, because Moore's craggy, impassioned vocals and simple guitar strumming can easily speak for themselves, as he reels through 14 of the best songs in his repertoire of hundreds, passed along from singer to singer like a quart-jug of corn-whiskey. "May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister," "The Lawson Family Murders," "Little Rosewood Casket," these songs are pure classics, whether or not you know them. And whether Spencer Moore is one of the last remaining ties to a place and time when these stories were an integral part of the fabric of society, or instead just another old farmer wiling away an evening on the back porch with his ancient guitar, this album is a delicious slice of history. [JM]

		$16.99 CD   FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER Rhythm (Raster Noton) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" "Construction Shack" Wow! Frank Bretschneider named his new album after one of skate legend Christian Hosoi's kids! Weird. Rhythm on Raster Noton is a new album of precise bass blips of various sizes. Similar to Noto's Trans series, but not as slashingly aggressive, the album updates the click-hop sound with blunted, but no less hi-fi clicks and bumps. It's as if what used to be all about eardrum piercing clicks and beeps was changed into something warmer, softer, and more inviting... [SM]

		$8.99 12" $3.99 mp3   F'ED UP Year of the Pig / The Black Hats (What's Your Rupture?) "Year of the Pig" "The Black Hats" Before we get started, a small editorial note: In order to thwart spam blockers, we're going to simply call this band F'ed Up in this email, and let you fill in the missing letters. After about a hundred singles and a trailblazing and totally killer full-length (Hidden World on Jade Tree), F'ed Up have finally dropped the record that will alter people's perception of hardcore. In a genre that's remained pretty rigid over the years (politics, dress code, sound), F'ed Up has always done a good job of avoiding convention -- for instance, covering the Shop Assistants and Dolly Mixture is pretty evolutionary for a band in their world -- but this EP on What's Your Rupture? (America's premier hardcore label...ha!) delivers on many more accounts. First off, "Year of the Pig" is more than 18 minutes long. And yes, no matter how much you might doubt this, it does kinda sound like Poison Idea jamming with Pink Floyd. But along the way, F'ed Up manage to conjure up a gentle blues howl and then head into Bad Seeds territory with male/female vocal interplay, before launching the full-on repetitive Krautcore attack (wait, was it Neu! jamming with Poison Idea?). As the HC purists walk out the room, enter a whole new, and much larger, crowd. A fascinating blog by the band (lookingforgold.blogspot.com) gives some powerful theory behind this release involving the Chinese Zodiac, a rallying call against sexual abuse and exploitation of women, and a recording session draped in gold and lit by fire; but this is a record that simply can't be explained, a definitive and challenging statement from the future of hardcore. [AK]

		$15.99 CD   DINOSAUR L 24 24 Music (Sleeping Bag) Finally a legit reissue of this classic Arthur Russell record. Under the name Dinosaur L, Russell created experimental and quirky dance music that runs the gamut, from funky disco to freeform saxophone workouts. The star-studded band features Wilbur Bascomb, Julius Eastman, Peter Zummo, and many more. Worth it for the classic "Go Bang!" alone, this expanded set also features remixes by Francois K and Larry Levan. Classic stuff! (Full review next week.)

		$13.99 LP   SUNN O))) Oracle (Southern Lord) Do we really need to describe the music on here? Originally created for a performance art collaboration with sculptor Banks Violette, the music on Oracle continues in the same tradition as Sunn 0)))'s previous releases. The slowly shifting drones are fortified by the Buddha Machine (this track was originally intended for the Jukebox Buddha compilation) on one side, and on the other, Joe Preston of the Melvins and the Thrones lay down some mean jackhammer (!) and Atsuo Mizuno from Boris contribute on drums. It's heavy, it's haunting, it's desolate...and it's limited to 7,777 copies.

		$14.99 CD $9.99 mp3   U-ZIQ Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (Planet Mu) "Dexedrine Girl" It's been four years since Mike Paradinas graced us with a Mu-Ziq album, and 2007 finds him in a pretty cozy mood, knee-deep in billowing, crackling ambient grooves, and woozy techno. Laidback, but never lazy, the tracks are deep and rich with the sort of melody and musicality that have always made his records so much fun.

		$21.99 CD   VARIOUS ARTISTS Motel Lovers: Southern Soul from the Chitlin Circuit (Trikont) "Ring Ring Hello Click" O. B. Buchana Sizzling hot compilation of contemporary Southern soul from Trikont that combines tales of cheating and heartache with tracks that are downright lewd. Check out Denise LaSalle's "Long Dong Silver" for the latter. A lot of these artists have toured the Chitlin circuit for quite some time now, however, none of them sound roadworn and weary. Among the many highlights, the standouts include Marvin Sease's smoking "Motel Lover," Barbara Carr's "Down Low Brother," and the amazing "I'll Go to Jail" (you figure out what that one's about) by Lee Fields. For those of you who like your soul with some extra sauce on it.

		$21.99 CD   VARIOUS ARTISTS Mexican Boleros: Songs of Heartbreaking Passion 1927-1957 (Trikont) "Cien Anos" Pedro Infante Second Trikont comp of the week gathers the sounds of the dancehalls and cabarets of the 1920s-50s in Central America. The detailed booklet tells the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the bolero, and its tragic themes, and how it was killed off by the popularity of the mambo. It's extremely passionate music, ranging from Pedro Vargas' tearjerkers to the sensual sounds of "brothel composer" Augustin Lara. Sounds to fall in love with and to.

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