REVIEW: REV 99. - TURN A DEAF EAR

 

REV.99 - TURN A DEAF EAR (Pax Recordings., 2001):

Technical data:

Produced by 99 Hooker & Ernesto Diaz-Infante.

Engineered and Mixed by Ross Bonadonna, 99 Hooker

Art Design by 99 Hooker

Track List:1- Local Bomb, 2- Pavement Jam "Hey Your Car´s On Fire", 3- Olde Tyme Unnatural Rock ´n ´r oll, 4- Your Title here, 5- Spank My Piano, 6- We Should´ve Known, 7- Possum Ridge Paralyzer

This is a group of demented geniuses doing improvised music in an spontaneous way: 99 Hooker on chaos poetry and electrified sax, Ernesto Díaz-Infante on amplified acoustic guitar, piano, toy piano and glockenspies, Chris Forsyth on electric guitar, Akio Mokuno on G3 Powerbook (???) and Ross Bonadonna on studio manipulation. The result is experimental an funny at the same time, specially the chaos poetry ("Where is your accent from? CNN?"). The variety of instruments and the way they are played does not allow me to identify completely who is playing which part but the whole improvisation sounds really good. Who said that improvisational music was boring and for serious people?. Favorite tracks: "Pavement Jam...", "We Shoul´ve Known" and "Local Bomb". Contact: www.paxrecordings.com