{"id":11502,"date":"2016-09-23T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11502"},"modified":"2016-09-23T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:01:51","slug":"hundred-word-reviews-for-september-2016-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/23\/hundred-word-reviews-for-september-2016-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundred-word Reviews for September 2016, Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My week-long barrage of brief reviews wraps up with these last five. Look for more soon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11470\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/professor_longhair.jpg\" alt=\"professor_longhair\" width=\"300\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/professor_longhair.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/professor_longhair-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/professor_longhair-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01BHKO6Y2&amp;asins=B01BHKO6Y2&amp;linkId=cb2982d7d91abba57c2c62f696867a6b&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<b>Professor Longhair \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Live in Chicago<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nIn 1976, New Orleans legend Professor Longhair played at the University of Chicago Folk Festival. This high-quality recording documents that show, and the acoustic piano is captured wonderfully. The nuances of Longhair&#8217;s work on the ivories are captured in crystal-clear detail. The band is superb, the material is second to none, and this disc belongs in the collection of anyone who appreciates Professor Longhair&#8217;s work. It&#8217;s artists like him that help to make genre labels meaningless: is this jazz, blues, soul? Who cares? It&#8217;s American music and it&#8217;s fantastic. Kudos to <b>Carlo Ditta<\/b> for bringing this recording to the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11471\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gairport_finland.jpg\" alt=\"gairport_finland\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gairport_finland.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gairport_finland-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01EBB4N4W&amp;asins=B01EBB4N4W&amp;linkId=27be82367f031d02b65476be36b78d69&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<b>Fairport Convention \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Live in Finland 1971<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nFairport Convention is, for many people, one of those bands that they&#8217;ve heard about only in the context of other artists. By the time of this live recording, guitarist <b>Richard Thompson<\/b> was long gone, but the lineup \u2013 guitarist <b>Simon Nicol<\/b>, bassist <b>Dave Pegg<\/b>, fiddler <b>Dave Swarbrick<\/b> and <b>Dave Mattacks<\/b> on drums \u2013 remained a shining exemplar of English folk-rock. That subgenre bears little similarity to its American counterpart; you&#8217;ll never mistake the medieval flavor of Fairport Convention for the Byrds. Here they rock while maintaining their folk vibe. Swarbrick&#8217;s fiddle and and Nicol&#8217;s electric guitar are positively on fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11472\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maths_moons.jpg\" alt=\"maths_moons\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maths_moons.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maths_moons-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01FTGGSOG&amp;asins=B01FTGGSOG&amp;linkId=e40f73b5a284366a1b694aabba9f1bca&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<b>Maths and the Moon \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Familiar Strange<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nThis Northampton UK outfit makes a kind of indie rock that&#8217;s informed by \u2013 but never actually sounds like \u2013 the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s. To most ears they&#8217;ll sound more like early <b>Nirvana<\/b>, with an appealing if melancholy-sounding vocalist in guitarist <b>Andy Fiedler<\/b>. On this, their second album, they deliver a DIY-flavored ambience (the album was recorded in their home studio, and it sounds like it) that captures the immediacy of the material. Too energetic to be shoegaze, too melodic for punk. The quieter moments work as well as the louder ones; that bodes well for their future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11473\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/alan_price.jpg\" alt=\"alan_price\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/alan_price.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/alan_price-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00XJLX98W&amp;asins=B00XJLX98W&amp;linkId=c184d9359876a2d3c4bf115407d6a720&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<b>Alan Price \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Savaloy Dip<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nFormer <b>Animals<\/b> keyboardist Alan Price reached his commercial peak with 1973&#8217;s <i>O Lucky Man!<\/i> soundtrack album. <i>Savaloy Dip<\/i> was slated as its followup. But the album&#8217;s 1974 release was scotched, and the few 8-track tapes that leaked out are collectors&#8217; items. The album&#8217;s failure to appear is perplexing in light of the quality of the material, which seems like a continuation of the finely textured (and varied) approach Price used on <i>O Lucky Man!<\/i> Stinging lead guitar and tasteful, beefy horn charts support his organ work, and the album may remind some of the <b>Kinks<\/b>&#8216; sound of that same era.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11474\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wildfires_aguas.jpg\" alt=\"wildfires_aguas\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wildfires_aguas.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wildfires_aguas-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00T530KVW&amp;asins=B00T530KVW&amp;linkId=f25042129450bacda7043900153b2cb8&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<b>Wildfires \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Aguas Frescas Vol. 1<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nOn this EP, this Austin, Texas group sometimes sports a shimmering shoegaze vibe that recalls the Church (\u201cBad Breath\u201d), and other times has a slightly countrified indie-rock jangle that suggests early R.E.M. (\u201cSad Wolverine\u201d). Truth in labeling: \u201cLazy Daze\u201d features a vocal that feels, well, shall we say, way-laid back. The fifth and last track (the hypnotic and alluring \u201cGraveyards\u201d) is the disc&#8217;s strongest track. The windswept ambience of their tunes is displayed to good effect here; I haven&#8217;t heard <i>Vol. 2<\/i> yet, but based on the quality of these tunes, I&#8217;m betting it will sound good. Worth seeking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My week-long barrage of brief reviews wraps up with these last five. Look for more soon. 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