Funk Junk [Import]

Track Listings

1. Japanese Title

2. Japanese Title

Funk Junk,Micadelic,Pony Canyon,Rap

Average customer rating:

Um, good, but not great.
Avant-jazz of the highest order

Junk Magic
Craig Taborn
Manufacturer: Thirsty Ear
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Light Made Lighter
Soul at the Hands of the Machine
7 Black Butterflies
Oceana
Dogs of Great Indifference

ASIN: B0001LYFQS
Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

Junk Magic
Mystero
Shining Through
Prismatica
Bodies At Rest And In Motion
Stalagmite
The Golden Age

Customer Reviews:

Um, good, but not great........2004-06-03

I had real high hopes for this album but a lot of the music seems to miss the emotional points. It's a bit anticiptic. All technology and no heart... It comes thru at times, but more miss than hit.

Try Guillermo Brown's "Soul at the hands of the machine" from the same 'blue series' thirsty ear label to get the emotion with the technology... Guillermo's album is truly revolutionary and amazing...

Avant-jazz of the highest order.......2004-05-13

I love these oxymoronic titles, don't you?

The obvious question is, Which is it, junk or magic? But why does it have to be one-or-the-other? Why not both?

Indeed, why not?

And I think it is. It's "junk" in that it's not "classic." Maybe it's even "anti-classic" (whatever that is). That is, it pretty much plays by its own rules, not following bebop, hard-bop, post-bop, or free-bop. What else would you expect with bad (plus) boy David King sitting in the drums chair?

It's magic in that the goings-on are pretty special. What we've got here is something scarcely heard before. Thus, it's "magic" sheerly by being "unique." But it's also magic by being beguiling.

One of the things that makes this disc magic is its use of electronics, a vital, even essential feature of its fascinating sound signature. Take the first number, the title cut, "Junk Magic." The MO's pretty much out on the table for all to see: It starts with slow, dreamy sax and a static keyboard figure, setting a mood of soporific haze, when, suddenly, weird electronics creep in, along with a thudding drum figure. All-at-once we're in an altered state, an alien soundscape, with industrial thumps and Paradise Lost. But you know what? It's all somehow weirdly consonant with the preceding vibe, and it makes its own kind of crazy sense (with Redemption lurking in the shadows?).

Once broached, the electronics are front-and-center pretty much from here on out; once the cat's out of the bag, no sense in playing it coy. Thus, "Mystero," the next cut. Ringing, bell-like electronic tones; bass drones, sax moans, drum groans, all in some kinda Kubla Khan gamelon crazy-world.

And so on.

Pretty magical, methinks.

For me, this represents the apogee of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series gropings (not entirely successful, it must be admitted)--thoroughly modern, but with a kind of surefootedness and je ne sais quoi one is always relieved to encounter among the avant-garde.

I for one am willing to forgive any number of clunkers (and the Blue Series has been saddled with its share lately) for music of this transcendent, translucent, transmogrified gloriousness.

Tracks:

Die Siebziger / The Seventies (Remix)
Tight Pants
The Call Of Lust
No Satisfaction
She's So Nice (Remix)
Urwald Liebe / Djungle Love (Remix)
Naked Beach
The Person, Part 1
Satisfactory
Lasst Uns Singen
Harrakiry Mon Amour
The Person, Part 2

Average customer rating:

Big, groovy funk

Junk in the Trunk
Cadillac Jones
Manufacturer: Harmonized
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

People Gonna Talk

ASIN: B00015HV92
Release Date: 2003-11-18

Tracks:

Tilt
Upper Decker
Sammy Sosa
Galaxy Galore
Friend Or Foe?
Yahtzee Champ
Giant Steps
Concourse '73
Janine Is Fat
Your Mama
Adults Making Love
Anthesis
Not Listed

Customer Reviews:

Big, groovy funk.......2003-12-10

Cadillac Jones is shifting into overdrive and careening through the Atlanta music scene, with side swiping neo-funk grooves, pelvic pounding rhythms and Hot Tub chic melodies made for modern loving. Standing on the shoulders of giants like Herbie Hancock, James Brown, Charlie Parker, and Grant Green, taking deep breathes of innovators like John Scofield, Charlie Hunter and Karl Denson, Cadillac Jones' sound is one part jazz, two parts funk and three sheets to the wind. When they're bad, they're better.