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LITTLE BROWN AND PENTOLINO: ziu zau

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Artist: LITTLE BROWN AND PENTOLINO
Title: ziu zau
Format: CD
Label: Ma (@)
Rated: * * * * *
Crippled self bored lo-fi folk music, that's what Little Brown and Pentolino is all about. This time lo-fi is again intentional since the recording is ok and the skeletal/minimal impression you get from the listening of this cd probably sticks to musicians' purposes. This silly funny ballads indirectly pay homage to the ironic genius of Jad Fair and they have a common spleen/bored/ironic factor with the ex member of Half Japanese. Acoustic guitar driven ballads, deliberately rock/out of tune vocals and some acoustic intrusions like toy instruments, drum machines, harmonicas, etc. but they've kept it all really "poor". On this cd you have a couple of strange things in-between the track list, like the psychedelic repetitions of "Wake up" or the psych-folk "adagio" of "Loop", but it's one of those record that's probably meant to be played in front of the fire... barely drunk in the middle of a picnic. While some episodes makes it straight to listeners hear, some others probably gets lost during the listening of the whole release. The last part of this cd is really nice, so much that I'd have voted for another track list but who knows probably the project's physiognomy would have been too different.

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