At 08:01 AM 4/30/01 -0700, B. Allison wrote:
> I really like this Tony Allen album. Great
>combination of afrobeat, funk and spaced-out
>electronics. This new project sounds even better.
> Was able to get a few Doctor L MP3s from someone a
>guy in Holland and have been searching for his albums
>ever since. Are they distributed or available any
>place? Hard to get?
>
>-B-
>
At the risk of sounding like a freaking Amazon shill, the only place I've
seen _Exploring da Inside World_ (his first, supposedly best?) listed
(outside of the crapshoot GEMM listings) is http://www.amazon.com.fr.
He releases all these "eps" that are basically full-length albums (clocking
in at around 40m)-- _The Give Away Box_ is my favorite such article thus
far. Then there's the _Mountains Will Never Surrender_ ep, & one called
_Navigator_ which I haven't heard. The new full-length is called _A Temple
on Every Street_. I go back & forth on it-- in a way, his strengths are
his weaknesses; he samples himself playing all the instruments, which gives
everything a pretty interesting vibe (almost like the Eno/Talking Heads/D.
Byrne collaborations). The vocals are not all that strong, but given the
high-tolerance people have for wack vocals hereabouts it's probably not a
big issue, & the instrumental quotient is pretty high. Kind of a sampled
no-wave/electronica base w/a lot of psychedelic freakery poking through the
mix here & there. Not describing stuff too well this morning, maybe
someone can pick up this ball & run w/it....
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