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artist: Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle
album: Battery Milk
label: Hyena Records
cat: HYN 9354
year: 2007
genre: Jazz
sub-genre: Go-Go Music, Jazz-Funk, Punk-Jazz
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 69,2 MB
link: http://www.hyenarecords.com/
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 06:39 Go-Go's Theme
02 05:18 Broc's Last Stand
03 06:49 The Blame Game
04 03:05 Robbing The Bank
05 02:42 Your Mother Was My Teacher
06 04:36 The Voyeur
07 04:03 Lunatic Express
08 05:39 Hercules
09 05:08 Lopsided Mellon Ball
10 02:50 Stupid Americans
11 03:10 Bad Man
12 04:06 Harris County
total time: 54:05 min
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│release notes.
When jazz legends Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson first introduced
the vibes to the jazz idiom circa 1930, they could have never in
their wildest dreams foreseen where Mike Dillon would take the
concept 75 years later. Likewise, Dillon's heroes Black Sabbath,
The Minutemen and Bad Brains would've been hard-pressed to envision
a vibraphonist internalizing their punk ethos and conjuring his own
rage-against-the-machine spirit through the mellifluous sounds of
the vibraphone. Enter the man himself, Mike Dillon. None of these
observations matter or ever will. Some would call a force of nature
like his visionary. But again, Dillon confounds. He's not
interested in celebrating vision or any of the lofty ideals that
come along with it. Mike Dillon is about throwing down, getting on
the good foot and chasing the muse wherever it flows. Case in
point, Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle and their rawkus debut album,
Battery Milk, to be released January 30, 2007 on the Brooklyn-based
independent record label, HYENA Records.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Mike Dillon's musical history
runs deep. In the late '80s and early '90s, he was a member of the
pivotal Texas bands Billy Goat and Hairy Apes BMX. He soon moved
onto acclaimed experimental and improvisational bands like The
Malachy Papers, Critters Buggin and Garage A Trois, all of which
are situations in which he still plays to this day. Dillon's
reputation also led to collaborations with MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Super
Chiefs 3, Polyphonic Spree and Sex Mob. A percussionist by trade,
Dillon re-discovered the vibraphone while battling drug addiction.
After a six month morphine binge, he was penniless and looking for
a fix. Having no more gear to pawn except his vibes, he kicked
drugs cold turkey and began learning Thelonious Monk's "Well You
Needn't."
Mike Dillon is known to furiously circulate around the country,
simultaneously calling Austin, New Orleans and Kansas City home.
These nomadic experiences led him to his highest profile gigs yet:
recording and touring the world as a percussionist with both Ani
DiFranco and Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, projects which have been
a mainstay of his world for the past several years. And yet somehow
in the midst of all this, Dillon put together Go-Go Jungle in early
2006. The band features Dillon's longtime musical co-conspirators,
including Mark Southerland on tenor saxophone, JJ "Jungle" Richards
and Ron Johnson on bass guitar and "Go-Go" Ray Pollard on drums.
Battery Milk opens with the soul-fire strut, "Go-Go's Theme." The
tune answers the question: "What would Bobby Hutcherson sound like
jamming alongside D.C go-go legends Trouble Funk?" "Broc's Last
Stand" continues in the old school, soul jazz spirit with Dillon's
acid-tinged vibe work propelling the groove. But just when you
think you know where the Go-Go Jungle's headed, Dillon changes
pace. "The Blame Game" has a Tom Waits-esque spoken word feel with
swirling electronic effects and deep, ethereal blowing by
Southerland. Dillon takes his gift for black comedy to the next
level on the hysterically creepy, "The Voyeur," which also inspires
comparisons to his boss in the Frog Brigade, Les Claypool.
Further into Battery Milk, bassist JJ "Jungle" Richards delivers a
Curtis Mayfield-worthy vocal on a slinky re-working of Aaron
Neville's New Orleans R&B gem, "Hercules." And even still there are
moments of metal, punk and Zappa irreverence such as "Stupid
Americans" and "Lunatic Express." The album is rounded out by two
of its most important tracks. "Bad Man" is a tongue-and-cheek
political statement most notable for the dichotomy between its easy
rolling, happy groove and sinister-sounding sampled snippets of
George W. Bush. "Harris County," a tribute to none other than the
late, great Eddie Harris, is built around spitfire improvising and
rhythmic interplay between Dillon and Go-Go Ray.
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