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Osaka Bridge Karaoke Kalk CD-35 CD £11.99 Hook-up between Scottish jazz composer Bill Wells and Japanese idiot-avant orchestra Maher Shalal Hash Baz that makes a lot of sense. Wells's compositional approach is as evocatively askew and sweetly melancholy as Tori Kudo's and this set builds on aspects first expressed on Wells' classic early big band sides as well as beautiful, tender Maher compositions like "Medicine For The Melancholy". There is still a little John Barry to Wells's soundtracks but the awkward, squozing horns of the Maher orchestra help locate them somewhere downwind of the Donald Ayler orchestra plays the new wave scores of Bruno Nicolai. Wells on piano and sampler, Tori Kudo on vocals, clarinet, melodica and percussion, Reiko Kudo on vocals, Shiro Kobayashi on trumpet and whistle, Naoki Otani, Mako Hasegawa on cornet, Natsumi Shibuya on trumpet and French horn, Naoto Kawate on baritone horn, Takuya Sugimoto on acoustic guitar, Satoru Ono on electric guitar, Koji Shibuya on electric bass and Namio Kudo on drums and laptop. |
