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The five albums collected in this 2013 slipcased box — The Wishing Chair, In My Tribe, Blind Man’s Zoo, Our Time in Eden, and MTV Unplugged — capture 10,000 Maniacs’ work during their Elektra years. 1985 to 1993 represents the group’s most popular and creative peak, and this box is an easy, affordable way to get all the material from that era in one purchase. Each album is presented as a mini-LP housed in a cardboard sleeve as a way to cut down cost and save space.
Tal National don’t waste time trying to convince you. The opening title track roars out of the speakers with all the ferocity of a Black Flag joint, complete with a rapid fire a cappella declaration right off the top. The energy rarely lets up after that. It’s an aggressive blend of prog — precise, raw guitar leads and over-the-top waves of polyrhythms just daring you to sit still. The stoner funk of Fela and the laid-back swaying of Hi Life are far from this pogo. Tal National are still a big band, in the tradition of African popular music. The tribe create and travel as one community, but this type of lineup, combined with a rock energy and sound, ups the ante for action that far surpasses the traditional power already existing in large groove outfits.
The last section of “Belles Reines” escalates into a a harmelodic, uptempo head-banger worthy of Prince’s “Lovesexy” on meth. The temperature cools on “Duniya,” but the precision and energy just seem to lurk underneath, exploding into an African Metallica guitar blast on “Akokas.”
This release has the same charge as the early entries of Ali Hassan Kuban or Konono No. 1, both who set the bar for raw energy. The colonial demarcations of Africa have a lot to answer for, but this fusing of Songhai, Fulani, Hausa and Tuareg peoples has created gifts worth having. This is amazing music and the thought that will keep repeating is “When can I see them live?” — exclaim
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This 2012 box rounds up five of Dwight Yoakam’s very best albums — Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc., Hillbilly Deluxe, Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room, If There Was a Way, and This Time — presenting them as mini-LPs in cardboard sleeves. This is a quick, affordable way to acquire Dwight’s ’80s and early-’90s prime material.
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Double Bass – Claudius Dupont
Guitar – Tchavolo Schmitt
Guitar [Rhythm] – Martin Limberger, Mayo Hubert
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