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The Black Light by: Calexico List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.97 You Save: £4.02 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5033197380421 Label: City Slang Manufacturer: City Slang Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: City Slang Release Date: May 08, 2006 Studio: City Slang Sales Rank: 16122 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: The perfect soundtrack for a summer roadtrip in an old car across Death Valley. Calexico's musical textures are woven out of a dazzling array of instruments and styles, including mariachi trumpets, countrified pedal steel, Latin jazz percussion, and carnival organ, just to name a few. The songs move at siesta speed, casually looping and loping along, never getting overheated. Bandmates Joey Burns and John Convertino have their hands in so many musical pies--including projects with OP8, Giant Sand, Victoria Williams, Giant Sand, and Richard Buckner--one wonders how they find the time to create the sun-soaked music of Calexico. But thank God they have. --Tod Nelson Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - 7/10. Spaghetti westerns and pulp fictionCalexico's second album is a sprawling, doom-laden and cinematic work that draws heavily on latin jazz, mariachi, country and gypsy folk. Typically rich in the kind of malevolent desert imagery and border country narratives that suggest the novels of Cormac McCarthy, `Black Light' explores territory that is more fully realised in their later work, particularly `Feat of Wire'. Another widescreen production, Calexico are seemingly the natural heirs to Ennio Morricone's wild west atmospherics (check out `Minas De Cobre'). From the opener `Gypsy's Curse', `Black Light' is heavy on nocturnal ambience, rendered in sometimes lengthy instrumental passages, but is lighter on songwriting. Calexico have never been great songwriters, partly ... Read More: Rating: - 7/10. Spaghetti westerns and pulp fictionCalexico's second album is a sprawling, doom-laden and cinematic work that draws heavily on latin jazz, mariachi, country and gypsy folk. Typically rich in the kind of malevolent desert imagery and border country narratives that suggest the novels of Cormac McCarthy, `Black Light' explores territory that is more fully realised in their later work, particularly `Feat of Wire'. Another widescreen production, Calexico are seemingly the natural heirs to Ennio Morricone's wild west atmospherics (check out `Minas De Cobre'). From the opener `Gypsy's Curse', `Black Light' is heavy on nocturnal ambience, rendered in sometimes lengthy instrumental passages, but is lighter on songwriting. Calexico have never been great songwriters, partly ... Read More: Rating:  - Brilliantly Exciting Concept AlbumIf you have never heard Calexico, don't worry: you *will* love them. Because how could anybody not? They encompass such a wide range of styles and always manage to produce songs that are both melodically beautiful, rhythmically stunning and generally quite amazing. They do this on The Black Light. There are several story themes running through this album about two lovers (one of the lovers dies) and the album takes you on an adventure following through highs and lows, cities and mountains and the outbacks of America. If you want to relax in the warm evening sun, or to dance late into the night, or to take a drive somewhere in the rain, this album can, should and will be your soundtrack. Rating: - Calexico is really Jazz!A lot of reviews I've read of "Black Light" complain about the slow tempo of a lot of the songs on this CD, but I get the feeling they're approaching this music from what really is a "rock" perspective. To an avid jazz listener, the songs really make much more sense, especially in the tempos and the spaces between the notes. And it's really good stuff! You can slot this CD in between "Kind of Blue" and "Blues and the Abstract Truth" with no problem at all, for a south of the border kind of flavor--the sparseness of the Latin instrumentals and songs featuring the haunted vocals of Joey Burns really work to create something unique as an album. After all, not everything has to be 100+ beats per minute...and it's great for playing ... Read More: Rating: - Top 5 all time Americana CDThis is one of the great Americana CDs of all time and probably the most underrated. The mood relates to the name of the band - California mixed with Mexico. Put it on and imagine you are out in a border town with a Mariachi band playing in a small bar and you get the feel of the record. Beautifully played with a mix of strings, horns and pedal steel and the tight rhythmn section of Convertino and Burns (Giant Sand. You will love it. Give it a try!! KGB |
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