Monday, September 7, 2009

Ambitious Lovers - Greed


The Ambitious Lovers were Arto Lindsay and Pete Scherer, playing art-damaged, serrated pop. Contributors to this album include: Naná Vasconcelos, John Zorn, Vernon Reid, Bill Frisell, and Joey Baron.

"The Ambitious Lovers then settled down to a duo of Lindsay and keyboardist Scherer, although John Zorn, Vernon Reid, Nan� Vasconcelos and others make contributions to Greed. Still frequently spattered with nutty noises, the album is surprisingly accessible; Arto's singing (again in English and Portuguese) rarely requires listener indulgence. So if "King" contains some impressive chicken squawk guitar and a houseful of Latin percussion instruments, the song itself is reasonably mainstream. Whether Greed is viewed as a commercial compromise or a more subtly subversive undertaking than the first LP, the mixture of normalcy and extremism gives it fascinating dynamic tension." - Mark Fleischmann

Anthony Royal

3 comments:

  1. Blaps! a ver si posteo un poco de Lindsay que hace falta.

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  2. True that, no se ha posteo na del Airto solo

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  3. 1. arto es un rey desde dna

    2. el primero de los ambitious lovers es increible, tambien

    3. los discos de mezclas de electronico y samba que hizo en las 90's
    son super importantes

    4. airto, tan bueno que es, es otra persona

    timoVERSION

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