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STYLE: Alternative / Jazz / Postmodern

HOME TOWN: Brooklyn, NY 

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    We launch IndepenDisc with an homage to its Father. It was Burner, a compilation disc released by Home Office Records, that gave birth to IndepenDisc.

    Shortly after purchasing Burner in May of '97, I reviewed it on-line and called it "The first truly significant off-the-beaten-path, great music that I've uncovered in a while". I stick by that statement today, for it was/is the first in a list, that will continue each month here at IndepenDisc.

    With Burner you get 5 Artists, 14 tracks, and 70 minutes of genre crossing music that can only be described, on a whole, as an alternative to alternative. The disc features two Home Office Artists, Pawnshop and RAW Kinder;

    Pull up a stool, quaff an ale, and jam along with the edgy Folk Rock/Pub Rock of Pawnshop. Dig their masterful mix of acoustic and electric guitars ("Words", "Wild Rose"). Enjoy the fact that the vocals are successfully blended with the musical arrangements ("Trip", "Strange"), and continue to tap along as we await their first full CD release on HO Records in the near future (see Pawnshop - Three Brass Balls).

    RAW Kinder, who have just released their own EP on Home Office Records, is Burner's head trip. With songs that string you along ("Songhead", "Back To The Lemon Garden") growing slowly bolder, threatening to blow wide open, but teasing you ever a bit more, sprawling into a musical odyssey that keeps you at the edge. Combined with vocals by Renee Annabel Wilson (The female equivalent of Jim Morrison- No kidding!) it is both haunting and beautiful all at once. RAW Kinder continues to cruise along ("Wishin'", "Strange Bird [Live]") with this spacey, trippy, mind expanding element that allows your senses to come alive with the subtle rawness invoked by the perfect infusion of "mellow" soaring guitar and keyboards plus vocals so expressive that they become an instrument of their own.

    The rest of Burner features 3 Guest Artists;

    bluecowboys, who open the disc with 3 tracks, draw from Jazzy, Lounge Rock with the sexy, smoky purr of Erika Wilson's vocals ("Skin", "Chalice Of Love"), that simply wrap their way around the music and your ears.

    Rob Schimmer, offers 2 Jazz tracks that separates the disc's Artists/moods successfully. "Loose Change", (with his Trio), is very reminiscent of early 60s Dave Brubeck. "East Village Hoedown", (solo), presents itself to me as a wild ragland style romp through a jazz impressionists view of TV's Saturday morning animated music.

    Finally Mark Stewart wraps things up with the disc's Postmodern guitar composition "Trummings (Live)".

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