Older records, cherished once, lost later, now re-discovered, eight albums that have lost nothing of their magic spells. No ranking here.
Rickie Lee Jones: PopPop**
Human Arts Ensemble: Under The Sun
David Bowie: Scary Monsters
Edward Vesala: Nan Madol
Egberto Gismonti: Danca dos Escravos
The Residents: Eskimo
Lewis: L‘amour
Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus*
*„At times this Mingus album reminds me of Zappa’s Grand Wazoo / Wakajawaalbums from the early 1970s — a bigger band music that isn’t afraid to dance naked precariously on the edge of going off the rails. The result is stunning, kind of like if one of Ellington’s bands from the 1940s were given several big pots of coffee and deposited in a church, performing hair raising improvisation of evangelical proportions.“ (Mark Smotroff)
**“I was living a life enchanted by impossible connections, narrow escapes, and the perfect timing of curiously strong coincidence,” writes RLJ of her sudden ascent from Tom Waits hanger-on to global sensation with 1979 radio staple “Chuck E’s In Love”. Her drive-it-like-youstole-it memoir, „Last Chance Texaco“, eases around the jagged curves of her life with a pleasing bemusement and a stylish tilt of the beret.“