Album Review
BeNe GeSSeRiT – “Fashion Is a Dirty Word” – [Domani Sounds]
Thurston Hunger 6/21/2022 12-inch, A Library
A completely tweaked treat from 1987 Belgium via Alain Neffe. Here Alain is “Benedict G” synthing his way around and besides his wife Nadine Bal (aka “B. Ghola”). Things start with a mirror world take on G-L-O-R-I-A but the whole album is glorious with some songs taking longer to read their titles than to actually listen to them. Check out #2 like a shot of la-la-las in a bar from Blade Runner. Nadine’s imbalanced vox are so perfect, often in a kind of clipped and buzzed English. Insane Music for Insane People is not just an appropriate assessment, it was the title for Neffe’s series of collections in the 80’s. Kookoo keyboards, drum machines with dimples, occasional sax/clarinet squalls, brief processional guitar. But mostly the analog keys carry the sound for art-inflected minimal music, which is not afraid to
be catchy at times. Or to be imitation Chinese or an Xmas carol in exile. “You Can Dance If You Want To” is like the Waitresses meet the Kinks. Things are definitely kinky strange through-out, but less red-light district and far more playful wonder for your inner child bouncing on a trampoline of reverb.
Forget fear, Fun is the mind-liberator.
-Thurston Hunger
PS KFJC has a Feeding Tube Bennie & the G lp for further frolic
you heard it 23 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 140 days ago, Lucky Jae played Joyeux Poeme!
- 142 days ago, Ms. Conduct played Kidnapping
- 142 days ago, Puplaif played Kidnapping
- 146 days ago, Avakhov played The Room Had Faded From Her Mind, and All The Things She N
- 149 days ago, Naysayer played So Far From Asia
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