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 | CURLEW North America Label : Cuneiform Records Year : 1996 Format : CD Style : Jazz / Rock Availability : In stock Price : 14.70 € - BUY | |
| Description : | North America reissues Curlew's obscure 2nd album, which was recorded in 1984-85 and originally released only in Germany. It features the band in transition from it's original line-up into the band that helped to define the 'Knitting Factory Sound' in the mid/late 1980's, and who the New York Times, called, 'the best of the unsigned, genre-busting downtown groups'. North America is an unusual album in the band's oeuvre, as it's their one album that is the most obviously a product of the studio, and it's also their most overtly 'avant-progressive' release. Like all the band's work, it is a unique synthesis of gritty Southern r 'n' b, harmolodics, finger-popping grooves and the avant-garde. The band who perform on North America is pretty much an all-star ensemble of the emerging 'downtown' scene: Appearing as always are saxist/leader George Cartwright and cellist Tom Cora. Fred Frith appears in the role of bassist (& 2nd guitarist), which might seem a little suprising until one remembers that for many years he held down the bass chair in Naked City. Curlew was actually the first band in which he played bass. The guitarist is Mark Howell. Drum duties are split between Rick Brown and Pippin Barnett. Pippin would become Curlew's drummer for the next six years. In addition to the personnel on the original album, there is 30' of never-heard bonus live material included which was recorded a year before the recording of the album, and which features Cartwright, Cora, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, drummer Anton Fier and bassist Otto Williams. We remastered it for better sound than the original issue, and repackaged it as well, with great liner notes by Michael Decapite. | |
| Titles : | 1. Ray (4:42) 2. Oklahoma (3:54) 3. Knee Songs 2 (2:11) 4. Person to Person (2:21) 5. Time and a Half (2:56) 6. Mink's Dream (3:05) 7. Two-Day 'Till Tomorrow (1:33) 8. Light Sentence (2:40) 9. First Bite (2:51) 10. Moonlake (5:15) 11. Shoats (2:38) 12. Agitar/The Victim (5:16) 13. Feelin' Good (3:06) 14. Oklahoma (6:18) 15. Shoats (3:57) 16. Moonlake (4:49) 17. Mink's Dream (3:53) 18. The Ole Miss Exercise Song (5:54) 19. First Bite (3:32) | |
