Punch 2002

Making Music features two of the most creative musicians in contemporary music. Victor and Carter have known each other since childhood, however Victor's Yin-Yang album (Compass Records) was the first project that they had ever done together. Hudson Music filmed two days of these incredible sessions. You will get an inside look as two great songs, Zynergy and Resolution are introduced, developed and recorded. It's a fascinating process to watch when players of this caliber are involved.

R. Crumb - And His Cheap Suit Serenaders (1974) {Blue Goose Japan Mini LP AIRAC-1024 rel 2002}
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© 1974, 2002 Blue Goose / Shanache / Air Mail Recordings Japan | AIRAC-1024
Jazz / Blues / Old-Timey / Early Jazz

Robert Crumb, Allan Dodge and Robert Armstrong, inspired by collections of 1920s jazz 78s, decided at the height of post-hippie electric madness to form an anachronistic acoustic band. Banjo, mandolins, saw, accordian, and assorted violins and brass make a sound not quite ragtime, not really bluegrass, just as loosely related to Hawaiian and klezmer but transcendent: sweet, sentimental, sometimes spooky.

Some years ago a distinguished music professor said to me, "You must go and see Doktor Faust at English National Opera - you'll hear a second rank composer at the height of his powers". Backhanded though this compliment may seem, it was clearly conveyed with a spirit admiration and perhaps a tinge of surprise.

Johnny Cash's fourth project with producer Rick Rubin continues on the same path as many of their previous releases: Cash's warm and rumbling baritone over minimal production and gentle duets with some surprising guests. One of the things that sets American IV: The Man Comes Around apart from the others is Cash's song selections. The success he experienced with his previous interpretations of contemporary songwriters (Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage," Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat") is applied to this album with varying degrees of success. His throaty reading of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" easily fits into his "Man in Black" persona, and the spiritual conviction underlying Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" is certainly powerful.