TIP OF THE TONGUE 22 AUGUST 2010
Flower-Corsano Duo
You’ll Never Work In This Town Again
No Label No Cat
CD-R
OUT OF STOCK!
I was gabbing with a pal in the shop this week when I described some group as a ‘poor man’s Flower-Corsano’. My friend was quick to set me straight. Who isn’t a poor man’s Flower-Corsano?, he said. Duh, point taken. This latest limited self-released album, You’ll Never Work In This Town Again, is a continuation of the euphoric form of their previous Chocolate Cities release with three beautifully recorded live tracks from Pittsburgh and NYC in October of 2009. The opening 17-minute explosion sounds like a fleet of berserkers playing amphetamine bagpipe music with all of the end of the world gladness/sadness of the Albert Ayler Orchestra. Mick creates these impossible tangles of steel that are as implosive as any Eurasian ritual music while cutting them up with Jimi-at-Woodstock levels of squeal. But it’s the speed of ideas, the ten-arm dexterity of Corsano, the endlessly mutating riffs, that really blows your mind. The second 19-minute track starts out in more languorous fashion, with Mick playing a spare eulogy that Corsano swiftly marches all the way over the horizon, while the closing 7 minute piece feels more like a coda, with Mick slowly unwinding a spiral of melody while Corsano dances all around it. Truly, one of the premier energy music duos of this or any other age. Highly recommended.
