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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