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Though
is most often associated with
, his interests and connections have led him to release albums through other labels around Europe and elsewhere. Thus
, which came out on the
label in Italy in 1991. After the experimentation with the
explosion on
the previous year,
aims less at dance but still takes a mostly solo tinge in its composition and arrangement. Songs like the slightly twangy
which has one of
's most minimal vocal deliveries ever -- and that's saying something! -- and the two-part
all show him as restless and creative as always, working with his sound at the same time as he found new extrapolations with it. As before,
only turns up once, on
along with irregular violist
and
on harmonica, for a wonderful four-minute composition that starts as a tense piano/guitar combination before turning into its own weird
stomp. Though that is
with
on the cover along with
, who sing/speaks on the brief, moody
the only song from this release to surface on the
reissues. The lead track is another example of beautiful collaboration -- working with clarinetist
,
itself, at nearly eight minutes long, is one of
's longer and most captivating recordings, his delicate filigrees spinning out over a steady, gently relentless synth bass/drum punch. The CD version of the album includes both the four-song
single from 1988 along with a separate live track,
from a Paris performance. Funniest and most descriptive song title of them all:
-- at 30 seconds. ~ Ned Raggett