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Dennis Palmer -
White Wuff
CD
I Adore
Limpet
James Rosa
My Damey
Ever Loving Normberg
July Screech Dragon
Chongo
Nobody Like Suford
Telling Nana
Evolvement
Feeling Fine
Man Alive
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Dennis Palmer - synthesizers, vocals
Jessica Lurie - vocals, percussion, alto and tenor sax, flute, sweet potato
Frank Pahl - whistles, banjo
Col. Bruce Hampton - vocals, incantation
Bob Stagner - voice, drums, percussion, guitar, mandolin, gongs
Arranged by Steve Hickman and Bob Stagner
Mixed, mastered and engineered by Steve Hickman
Original recordings by Phil Prouty |
Reviews: (Felt Hat) Public Eyesore has been releasing improvised and experimental music for over two decades and it never ceases to amaze me how interesting line ups Bryan who leads the label is coming up with. White Wuff is by any means no exception. When I read the liner notes I knew it is going to be a great musical adventure. Beautifully designed and released as a cd with 12 tracks that comprise different moods, travelling through genres. It's a pretty eclectic hybrid of various bits put into one mammoth of an album. Free jazz rock and no wave would be probably the best description of it but it wouldn't give the justice since every single track is a rabbit in your headlights or rather a massive deer. The improvisations are on the verge of something dadaistic - frenetic and having this wild animal quality - one minute it's quiet and sombre, another minute is jumping at you with the claws and sharp teeth showing all the kaleidoscope of different hues and shades. It is a journey between atonality and wonderful and feisty tunes that are both cheerful and humoresque at the same time - especially when Jessica Lure comes in - she is an absolute star on this album - she is on a few instruments here. Rock energy, dadaistic and absurd trajectories of experiments, jazzy improvisations, ethnic drumming, vocal hysteria and usage of different objects that add up a special sound to the whole album. Just a wonderful, colourful gem of collaborative work - musicians that you might have heard in different line-ups. - Hubert Napioski
(Bad Alchemy) White Wuff ist eine posthume Würdigung von DENNIS PALMER (1957-2013) als Synthesizer-Wizard, der 1986 in Chattanooga, TN, mit einem Faible für Derek Bailey & Co. das Improv-Duo Shaking Ray Levis mit dem Drummer Bob Stagner formiert hatte, das „Coelacanth“ (10“, 1992) mit Borbetomagus und „False Prophets or Dang Good Guessers“ (Incus, 1993) eingespielt hat. Wes Geistes Kind er war, verrät auch seine Coverkunst für Amy Denio, Only A Mother und Gino Robair. Und auch hier, wo sein Synthesizer und seine Stimme erklingen mit, neben Stagner an Voice, Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Mandolin, Gongs, auch noch Jessica Lurie (The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet) an Alto & Tenor Sax, Percussion, Flute und Singsang sowie Whistles & Banjo von Frank Pahl (Only a Mother) und Vocals & Incantation von Col. Bruce Hampton (The Late Bronze Age, Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers), der den Kult seines Hampton Grease BandAlbums „Music to Eat“ (1971) 2017 mit ins Grab nahm. Und, verdammt, so launig und spleenig wie das groovt – mit auch noch Maultrommel oder Melodica –, kratzt und frischeschockt das einem derart die Lederohren, dass das Gehirn, lustvoll überrascht, im ersten Schreck zurückspringt in die 80er. Dabei ist es anno 2012 entstanden (wie auch „Fishers O'Wufmen“ von Pahl & Shaking Ray Levis). Als ein Füllhorn kunterbunt gewitzter Miniaturen, dazu als Longtracks das afrojazzige 'Chongo' und das nippon-theatralisch gegurgelte, von Lurie besänftigte 'Feeling Fine'. Als durchwegs Stoff von jener Art, die 1984 Bad Alchemy entzündet hat. - Rigo Dittmann
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