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Michael J. KramerReviews
Various Artists: Rogues GalleryAarrrggh, ye mateys, this here's buried treasure: a Hal Wilner-produced collection of bawdy sea chanteys and pirate songs by big stars, such as Sting, Bono, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave, and Richard Thompson -- but the Popeye-voiced Baby Gramps steals the ship and leads us to uncharted waters of resistance. [20 October 2006] 
Luna: The Best of Luna and LunafiedIn Luna, Dean Wareham quipped his way through New York's arty-boho, high-society set over a cinematic soundscape of catchy melodies, guitar textures, and chugging Velvet Underground-inspired rock. [19 October 2006] 
Norfolk & Western: A Gilded AgeThe troubles of the modern world, reflected in a thrift-store mirror with a gilded frame. [22 June 2006] 
Tengir-Too: Music of Central Asia, Volume 1: Mountain Music of KyrgyzstanThe nomadic Kyrgyz music of the mountains becomes a new nomadic sound in the emporium of world music. [7 June 2006] 
Quasi: When the Going Gets DarkAn album of political frustration and rage from the duo, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss. [26 May 2006] 
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy: The Brave and the BoldSuperheroes of "post-rock" join forces to run cover songs through a perverse sonic blender. [30 March 2006] 
Hall Ranaldo Hooker: Oasis of WhispersThe kind of album that goes below the radar both sonically and commercially, this Sonic Youth side project by guitarist Lee Ranaldo, multi-instrumentalist Glen Hall, and free-jazz drummer William Hooker is destined to be rescued from obscurity fifty years from now as a long-lost whisper from the past. [22 March 2006] 
Konono No. 1: CongotronicsTheir music accepts the distortion, overtones, and surprising sonorities of contemporary life, but re-imagines instrumental power from the trash heap of modernity. [27 January 2006] |
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