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| 1 | Burning Caravan | | 2:46 | | 2 | Rasheed | | 9:52 | | 3 | Cadaques | | 2:03 | | 4 | Pedro's Last Ride | | 2:36 | | 5 | Al-Darazi | | 14:08 | | 6 | Hadley | | 1:27 | | 7 | Rose Room | | 1:51 | | 8 | Kamakhya | | 10:10 | | 9 | Morella | | 4:51 |
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[Rating25771941]
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The purest of all the records that have made their way from the vaults of Sun City onto a flimsy plastic disc for mass consumption, fittingly through John Fahey’s curious and absurdly reliable Revenant imprint. (Have you actually looked at the label’s output? Ayler, Beefheart, Taylor, Bailey, NNCK, Patton... absolute beauty.) And it leads me to believe that it was Charles Gocher and Brother Alan that injected the element of absurdity into the proceedings, their respective solo records backing me up forcefully on this, with the sure to be properly knighted Sir Richard there to pile influence upon influence in an effort to keep it all from falling apart. Or perhaps I’m entirely wrong, and this Bishop simply approaches solo recording with a different mindset to the others. Certainly, there’s an air of tranquillity and contentment that never fully surfaced on a record by the Girls, and these Reinhardtian sketches paint a picture of a man with full faith in his ability to control listeners’ emotions without a single word spoken. But it’s within the confines of overdubbed epics like “Kamakhya” that Salvador Kali’s purpose bleeds through: delivering true freedom to folk, applying a punk ethos to jazz, and inverting a picture of a guitar player for your album cover to symbolise your own twisted ends. |
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bundtcake
Great
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I don't have a good enough attention span for some of these songs. Sir Richard is real good at guitar and he wrote a bunch of guitar pieces and released them. it's not quite as exciting as some of the Sun City Girl stuff can be since the other musicians aren't going apeshit doing crazy things themselves the whole time. however it avoids being too hard to listen too, which the Sun City Girls don't always do for me. |
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cicciopettola
 Buona musica+tracce meno belle: discreto
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Impressiona in Sir Richard la capacità di passare da uno stile all'altro, di palo in frasca, con una facilità irridente: dalla classica, al barocco, al flamenco, fino a movenze latino-americane (mexico!) e persino orientaleggianti.. tecnicamente infallibile, disinvolto da lasciare di stucco ma semmai anche un pò increduli, ma quel che è peggio anche leggermente basiti, da non riuscire piuttosto ad apprezzarne la capacità d'emozionare a livello interpretativo. Se gli si può muovere una critica, pertanto, è una certa limitata capacità di suscitare emozioni e visioni mistiche, dal momento che lascia rapiti già con la sua disinvoltura improvvisativa. "Al-Darazi" in particolare, traccia pianistica -a sorpresa- è tanto fluente, sciolta e profonda quanto anche prolissa nel suo quarto d'ora d'evoluzioni: come giudicarla infine? "Morella" in fondo alla tracklist romanticissimo miglior pezzo dell'album... ma quando l'emozione arriva a far capolino, tutto è già finito.
complessivamente 7+/10 |
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Serge_A_Storms
 qualitative enjoyment
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One review, albeit appropriately made in Spanish; what gives? Yall are getting lamer by the day, and I say that lovingly. That aside, this works pretty well. Its supposed to tho; anything defined by a name like 'American Primitivism' should carry some weight. But thats a bit cloying, coz Kali falls into that ever-widening classification of undefinable. Its certainly reflective. Or introspective. Or maybe Dick just picked up his guitar n fucked around for an hour n named his creation after the first things he saw when he looked up. I take comfort in that. |
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projekct_5
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Un disco plagado de creatividad que a veces se siente un tanto amarrada, repitiendo algunos esquemas pero sacándoles jugo, llega momentos sublimes como Al - Darazi o Morella. Un gran disco en la tónica a la que este señor ya nos acostumbró y siempre se le va a agradecer. Un gran disco. |
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