Stones Throw has been
important
for a while but I believe they have now ascended to a godly level. Bow.
Madlib
and Lootpack are
the franchise, and knowledge and endless crates are this
label’s roster.
I used to talk to PB Wolf before Stones Throw had materialized, and
even
then it felt like he was going to do something new. Or in the case of
re-releasing
Stark Reality – something old. Re-issuing is a good idea, not
for the
finicky collector but for the average music fan who wouldn’t
have had a
chance to hear such great sounds otherwise. Stones Throw have done
quite
a bit of sharing with their 45 series that included Stark
Reality’s Rocket
Ship, and numbers by The Highlighters, LA Carnival and
Fabulous Souls.
‘Now’ is actually an album of children’s
songs composed by Hoagy Carmichael
but it’s not played, I’m sure, how Hoagy heard it
in his head. It’s played
funky, fuzzy and drawn out. The sing-songy edutainment lyrics become
strange drug addled chants in the hands of Monty Stark. And his band do
not need to be told to play it free and wide. While Thirty
Days Hath September
had me the most open, Rocket Ship and Dreams
had the most
interesting of the albums many meandering tangents. And like on any
good
re-release there is unreleased material: three songs for the album but
cut,
and Say Brother, a TV show theme that Monty had
originally assembled
his band for. If you are that finicky collector you may find an
original
copy of this yet, but if you are that average music fan you can find a
copy
right now.
Stones Throw has been
important
for a while but I believe they have now ascended to a godly level. Bow.
Madlib
and Lootpack are
the franchise, and knowledge and endless crates are this
label’s roster.
I used to talk to PB Wolf before Stones Throw had materialized, and
even
then it felt like he was going to do something new. Or in the case of
re-releasing
Stark Reality – something old. Re-issuing is a good idea, not
for the
finicky collector but for the average music fan who wouldn’t
have had a
chance to hear such great sounds otherwise. Stones Throw have done
quite
a bit of sharing with their 45 series that included Stark
Reality’s Rocket
Ship, and numbers by The Highlighters, LA Carnival and
Fabulous Souls.
‘Now’ is actually an album of children’s
songs composed by Hoagy Carmichael
but it’s not played, I’m sure, how Hoagy heard it
in his head. It’s played
funky, fuzzy and drawn out. The sing-songy edutainment lyrics become
strange drug addled chants in the hands of Monty Stark. And his band do
not need to be told to play it free and wide. While Thirty
Days Hath September
had me the most open, Rocket Ship and Dreams
had the most
interesting of the albums many meandering tangents. And like on any
good
re-release there is unreleased material: three songs for the album but
cut,
and Say Brother, a TV show theme that Monty had
originally assembled
his band for. If you are that finicky collector you may find an
original
copy of this yet, but if you are that average music fan you can find a
copy
right now.