<< Speaking of Fila Brazillia, how is the new LP? Can anyone offer a review?
Is it even out yet? >>
It just arrived at my house scant hours ago, having been ordered from (those
bastards at) cdnow. You could probably find it in a good-quality local
record shop, although most chain stores don't carry any fila at all, and I
dunno what kinda distro the new label (tritone) will obtain.
"A Touch of Cloth" offers more of the creamy, immaculately-produced funk
vibes we've come to expect from fila (one of my favorite artists). The line
here between jazz and electronica is fuzzed - some drum machines are used,
other moments are pure smoothy-pseudo-fushiony jazz (fusion without the
endless wanking solos, of course). Tastefully funky. Perfect for a swank
hipster cocktail hour.
Other palette elements are used, some more new-ish to fila (the odd
tropicalia, vocal "oohs," string sweeps), some like old friends (acoustic
guitars). Heavy rotation is likely. Perfect music for puttering around the
house, working, gardening, driving, and reading e-mail.
<< Any news about other artists slated for the new label? <<
The tritone website currently is just a placeholder, so not much detail yet
on the label. Does anyone know why fila left pork to form tritone? To me,
fila pretty much *was* pork, so this came as a big surprise (not that I don't
dig some of the other pork acts as well).
- Fred Church
http://www.thelocus.com/kumquat (free music for free people)
and check out
http://www.earpollution.com/nov99/album/album.htm#kumquat for a fresh review
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