Showing posts with label avant slinky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avant slinky. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

Silky sinning

OK! A week off the decks, and now I'm refreshed and ready to rock, roll, or some combination of the two. Metaphorically that is, because we're jumping back in with a rather un-rocking tribute to sin.

In the '80s, guitar strangler/late-model samba practitioner Arto Lindsay had the nifty idea of releasing a series of albums based on the seven deadly sins. So he hooked up with avant keyboardist Peter Scherer and created the Ambitious Lovers, a vehicle for state-of-the-art (now very dated) dance pop that was mostly outside their respective comfort zones. Results were mixed, and I think they only got around to three of the seven sins before the project ran aground. Here's one of the winners. I guess the coming-slowly-toward-you-at-the-bar groove is where the lust fits in.

Ambitious Lovers - More Light

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Spend nine minutes going crazy

If you ever want to turn a slow night drive through a sleepy suburb into something more interesting, throw this one on the stereo. It helps if earlier in the day you've been shooting guns under the supervision of range instructors who resembled mismatched cops in a buddy movie.

Part of me wants to call Ivers a visionary. All of me is willing to call him dead and, according to Wikipedia, it wasn't pretty. Sometimes music turns life into a cartoon.

Peter Ivers - Gentle Jesus