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Flavour of the Month 2.10.2009

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THE CASBAH (H:ki)
THE EVERGLADES (T:ku)
MARTY THE RANDOM GUY (T:ku)
+ Flavour Of The Month DJ:t
pe 2.10. 2009 klo 21-03
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
liput 3€

Lokakuun Flavour Of The Month-iltamissa kuullaan sekä paikallista että vierailevaa nousevaa voimaa. Vaasalaislähtöinen, brittihenkistä rokkaavaa kitarapoppia tarjoileva The Casbah tekee FOTM-debyyttinsä ja saa taustatukea turkulaiselta The Evergladesilta, jonka musiikissa häilyy niinikään brittirockin ja -popin parhaat perinteet. Illan pohjustaa mielenkiintoinen paikallinen laulaja-lauluntekijä Marty The Random Guy, joka sekoittelee americanan eri rakennuspalikoita (country, blues, folk) omanlaiseensa järjestykseen. Illan levymusiikista vastaavat perinteiseen tapaan FOTM-DJ:t.

http://www.myspace.com/martytherandomguy
http://www.myspace.com/thecasbahband
http://www.myspace.com/theeverglades
http://www.theevergladesband.com

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Richard Swift: The Atlantic Ocean

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Richard Swift: The Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian, 2009)

“Anthropological swag with rock and roll banjo and a trift-shop synth” says the sticker on the cover. Someone has come up with quite a marketing sentence, but I suppose it worked because I bought the album. Well bigger reason for that was that I really enjoyed his debut double album The Novelist / Walking Without Effort and therefore I thought I will give this a shot (I had already missed the second album).  It was a minor mistake, because it seems that Richard Swift nowadays makes too good music for me. He has turned into this pop genius with an experimental side and I’m a boring person with a simple taste of music. That is not a match made in heaven. I can’t say that the guy doesn’t have an ear for melody anymore, because there still are several gorgeous moments within the songs. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Atlantic Ocean was the pop album of the year for several people, but for me it just doesn’t work as a whole no matter how hard I try.

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Gene Parsons: Kindling

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Gene Parsons: Kindling (Collector’s Choice Music, 2009)

Gene Parsons is best known as a drummer of The Byrds (1968 – 1972), but he also made two solo albums. This first one entitled Kindling is a small cult classic and thankfully it has now been reissued by Collector’s Choice Music. I’ve been waiting to hear it for several years, but the prices of the previous out-of-print releases were way too high for me. Kindling was released in 1973. Soon after he quit The Byrds and before he joined The Flying Burrito Brothers.  The album doesn’t completely fullfil my extremely high expectations, but it’s still a really good rootsy album that ranges from country rock balladry to bluegrassy songs that have that traditional banjo and fiddle thing going on. Beautiful country/folk rock songs Long Way Back and I Must Be A Tree are my favourites and in overall Kindling is a very fine country-flavoured album.

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