Editorial Reviews
Ethnic Fusion
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Ingvar Loco Nordin, SONOLOCO Record Reviews
This re-release is a fresh breeze in the somewhat over-simplified and commercialized world of ethnic hints and glances.
Dan Warburton, Signal to Noise, Spring 2002, Issue 25
...the result is as sunny and clear as a bright morning on Potrero Hill.
Album Description
I do know that the man is rhythmically possessed. For me to comment in detail; to comment at all on the intricacies of sounds on this disc would be, to say the least, presumptuous. What I hear and what you hear are likely to be quite different things. What I hear are marvelous shadings on the drums, brilliant (and considerably more introspective) playing by Wheaton on the guitar. And I hear a wild assortment of rhythms—the bata, wawaco, samba, ska and calypso-reggae beat (among others I can’t identify). Black has a solo track, Wheaton often erupts, and at other times seems just to bubble. The artistic alliance, unusual at first encounter, not only makes sense–it works. I wish, somehow, that tape-loops (or a disc equivalent), wee common in audio reproduction, in the way they are in films. The music on this disc is continuous–continuous communication. Continuous African-classical sound-fusion. It’s Big Black and Anthony Wheaton, percussion and guitar. “Hey Phil, we’re gittin’ it together–you dig?” I dug, and I dig. You will, too.