this is the review of 'The Drift' from the radio station I work at (KFJC) - writ by staff DJ Guy MontagThe Drift ushers in a tremendous double LP release from the legendary Scott Walker (a.k.a. Noel Scott Engel). Originally fronting 60's pop sensation The Walker Brothers, he eventually went solo, retaining popularity for his first three outings before dropping into darker musical obscurity. These are his latest original creations and most recent solo recorded material since 1995's Tilt. Walker's trembling disturbed vocal mannerisms assume Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Roy Orbison, and Nick Cave characteristics as he divulges morbidly dark & deranged lyrics. Unsettling complementary tension building rhythms and harrowing melody structures slip through the experimental and improvised post-music circuits. Its pounding reverberations and twisted transformations are like some tortured interpretive cinematic Cirque du Soleil performance for the eternally damned. I can't help but listen aghast & awestruck. A subtle sense of panic starts swelling in my gut as I imagine what suspenseful drifting currents lay floating behind Walker's blood stained velvet curtain prior his nerve wracking shock tactics. I think he even pulls off a demonic Donald Duck impersonation straight from the Day of Doom. These are the sort of surreal theatric sounds you might experience in a David Lynch film and his disturbed macabre musings are still nesting & picking like pitch black crimson eyed vultures in my unstable psyche.
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tubaman,
Mon 30 Jul 2007, 5:35,
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I think I'd rather just hear a man playing a tuba.'Scott 4' is the one to start with, my babies.
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Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace,
Mon 30 Jul 2007, 5:48,
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I have not done any solo recordings lately,but here is some stuff by a friend / bandmate -
youtube.com/watch?v=Nd_gvR06j6s&search=fire%20tuba
and another local tubist (a bit more ambient):
www.emusic.com/samples/m3u/song/10706043/11810239.m3u (link might not actually work.)
(youtube.com/watch?v=Nd_gvR06j6s&search=fire%20tuba
and another local tubist (a bit more ambient):
www.emusic.com/samples/m3u/song/10706043/11810239.m3u (link might not actually work.)
tubaman,
Mon 30 Jul 2007, 6:14,
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YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.(
Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Mon 30 Jul 2007, 5:52,
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you want some strange record reviewsor reviews of strange records? (or both) - poke around in here:
spidey.kfjc.org/
see if you can guess which ones I did.
(spidey.kfjc.org/
see if you can guess which ones I did.
tubaman,
Mon 30 Jul 2007, 6:19,
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