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Curlew - A Beautiful Western Saddle (Cuneiform Records)
Curlew were spawned from the cross-cultural progressive music scene of mid 80s to 90s New York, whose ‘Knitting Factory Sound’ included the likes of John Zorn’s Naked City, Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, James Blood Ulmer and Last Exit. From preached beginnings of “Let’s sit Right Down” to the “I’m a dog playing cards” incantation of “Paint Me!” this re-issue of 1992’s, “A Beautiful Western Saddle” (recorded in 1989) is as much genteel as it is abrasive and it drops in on jazz-funk, folk, avant-garde classical, cabaret, R&B – all used to back Paul Haines’ satirical poems. 20 years of musical history between then and now has not aged the recording, but the musical cross pollinations that have happened in the meantime allow this to be more readily accessible than perhaps was then.
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