VA - Drink Up - Light Up! Jazz Noire Tales Of Dope, Booze & Sleaze (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 370 MB
2:33:56 | Jazz, Rhythm & Blues | Label: Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage follows 2011 s hugely-successful Jazz Noire collection by letting the same team return to those sleazy dives and bars, this time homing in on the dope, drink and dubious characters to provide a vivid picture of high-seeking low life between the 1930s and 1950s. The music on Drink Up Light Up! evokes that time when orchestras swelled, brass sections exploded like fireworks and blues dripped off piano keys onto booze- and tear-stained barroom floors, staggering cast including names like the Reefer Man and Snuff Dippin Mama, but the themes are just as relevant to today s recession-hit climate: the desire to escape by getting high (and the often unfavourable repercussions on relationships).