Brute Force’s Extemporaneous (Rev-Ola; CD) is a reissue of the 1969 LP featuring Mr Force on piano and absurdist vocals in front of a live audience in Olmstead Sound Studio. A former member of The Tokens, Force here plies pithy asides and in-jokes of the time with funny-funny lyrics which becomes quickly wearing. Maybe one for outsiders. Speaking of which Tangela Tricoli’s Jet Lady(Arf-Arf; CD) is in this vein. A set of acoustic guitar accompanied songs from 1982 which hold no mystery or intrigue for me but there are people for whom they do. Arf-Arf's Erik Lindgren tracked down the enigmatic Ms Tricoli for a full interview reproduced in the fat booklet along with an well-considered introduction on folk art and outsider music. This attention to detail and context gives the package a greater value than the sum of their parts. More earthy is UK band Small World whose CD single’s main title ‘Seaside Town In The Rain’ (Detour) is a welding of a Morrisey like
miserablist lyric and Welleresque attitude. Two other tracks ‘Don’t Make Me Feel’ and ‘Birds’ are also in a English bloke kind of style. Thee Jenerators CD single ‘Burn The House Down’ (Twist) is a blistering lung-emptying affair which appeals to my mischievous side. ‘French Disco’ is amusing and sounds like it’s based on experience but ‘The Day I Let The Union Fall’ is a rather ponderous and disconnected (from the others) acoustic number. Fun for all then. www.revola.co.uk www.arfarfrecords.com www.detour-records.co.uk www.cionlne.com/twist Paul Martin
A former member of The Tokens, Force here plies pithy asides and in-jokes of the time with funny-funny lyrics which becomes quickly wearing. Maybe one for outsiders. Speaking of which Tangela Tricoli’s Jet Lady (Arf-Arf; CD) is in this vein. A set of acoustic guitar accompanied songs from 1982 which hold no mystery or intrigue for me but there are people for whom they do. Arf-Arf's Erik Lindgren tracked down the enigmatic Ms Tricoli for a full interview reproduced in the fat booklet along with an well-considered introduction on folk art and outsider music. This attention to detail and context gives the package a greater value than the sum of their parts. More earthy is UK band Small World whose CD single’s main title ‘Seaside Town In The Rain’ (Detour) is a welding of a Morrisey like
miserablist lyric and Welleresque attitude. Two other tracks ‘Don’t Make Me Feel’ and ‘Birds’ are also in a English bloke kind of style. Thee Jenerators CD single ‘Burn The House Down’ (Twist) is a blistering lung-emptying affair which appeals to my mischievous side. ‘French Disco’ is amusing and sounds like it’s based on experience but ‘The Day I Let The Union Fall’ is a rather ponderous and disconnected (from the others) acoustic number. Fun for all then.