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Saturday, August 13, 2011

A-BAZOUKI VOLUME 1- A - Bazouki



A-Bazouki’s debut release on our own independent label Un-Gyve Records.



BOSTON - A-Bazouki Volume 1 released digitally 3.3.11 is now

available on iTunes.



I must say that this is one of the most original and unusual recordings that I have ever listened to...and I have listened to a lot of stuff. It is a cd and also includes a DVD. After listening to the cd a few times I took the DVD home and watched it in the comfomfort of my living room. I have to say that the films are well done and cohesive.



Got some free time and an open mind??? Check it out!



Recorded entirely in analogue on a small four-track deck in the basement, A-

Bazouki Volume 1 tributes the band’s roots with twelve songs. An

alternate take “Crossroads (For Robert Johnson) - Take 1” is also

included with the DVD, one of five movies, as part of the package

that contains a tape-bound booklet with movie-stills, lyrics, and

sleeve-notes by the man who named A-Bazouki Christopher Ricks

(Dylan’s Visions of Sin): “Modest is the down-to-earth term of high

praise that these songs earn.” The record will also be available on vinyl.



The track-list and playing times:

1. Lucky 4:05 2. Bowlin' Green Blues 6:44 3. 213 Blues 3:54

4. Crossroads (For Robert Johnson) 3:54 5. Back Alley Blues 1:53

6. Buttoned-Down Blues 7:49 7. The Key (To My Door) - for Sonny Boy

4:34 8. The Beldam (No Mercy) 2:10 9. Wrecking Ball Waltz (for

Vincent "Sonny" Scardino; Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver) 3:52

10. Basement Blues 5:28 11. Boston or Bust 2:28 12. Saint Louis Blues

(For Blind Willie) 3:33



The twelve original songs are credited to the sisters multi-

instrumentalist (violin, mandolin, ukulele, piano) and cartoonist

(Jule's 'Toons) J. Nemrow and L. A. Nemrow (harmonica and vocals) a

writer currently working on The Probe (a novel) and a Bostonian &

other poems; a contributor to Ricks' (with Leonard Michaels) The

State of the Language, later edition, the essay "Dirty Words" was

called a "tour de force" by The Economist. The two are also

screenwriters/filmmakers collaboratively; their musical lineage

includes uncles Joe and Dom DiBona (Frank Sinatra) and saxophonist

Frank Messina (Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Claude Thornhill, Frank

Sinatra); and harmonica player Larry Adler.

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