a journey through the space-time continuum
author: Holding Together Magazine
Two new shiny circles from Leicester's own David Crosby, both featuring our man on a plethora of instruments - guitars, keyboards, theremin, kalimba, zither, vegetables etc - and his trusty lieutenants the Talking Fish in support.
"Alien Salad Abduction" is a departure, and one of which Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship would approve - a collection of songs with a spacey connection, a journey through the space-time continuum. if you like. "Andromeda Bound" even name-checks Grace and the Doktor of Space - and it's a suitably fine exploration. The title track, a highly amusing novelty song the first time around, is such a cleverly constructed composition it actually grows on you with repetition. bp
"Fly High" features more of those multi-Christos dissolving into each other like ghostly images; "Virtual Girl" a wry and witty musing on the vaguaries of modern romance ; and lets not forget the atmospheric linking pieces, XM/Copernican Rumbles style between several of the selections.
Both albums are recommended.
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a veritable galaxy of songs
author: Netrhythms
I never cease to be amazed at this prolific guy and the sheer amount of stuff he produces. Not only does he keep down a full-time pivotal role as multi-instrumentalist within the Vikki Clayton Band, but he's a prodigiously talented musician, singer, songwriter, composer and producer in his own right.
The songs on Alien Salad Abduction, though (as the title might well imply to the astute!), major more on the overtly witty, frivolous side of Chris's writing, the fully fledged space hippie having (almost) come of age on a veritable galaxy of songs embracing world, fusion, electronic, funky pop and nouvelle-jazz influences and embodying an intrinsic (if scattergun) whimsy that probably owes as much to Daevid Allen and Gong as to anything else in the musical universe. Chris may be hard to keep up with, but there's no denying the man's serious creativity or his perennial inventiveness.
David Kidman
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beguiling
author: Mojo Magazine
A beguiling mish mash of Tamla, Steely Dan, bossa nova and cod cosmics.
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Professionally produced, catchy, innovative
author: Mark Long
Perhaps the most polished filk that I have ever heard. Crosses the divide between Filk and Pop but with none of the stale sameness of Pop. Some of the songs have a newness that still impresses on the tenth listen. Splendid.
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