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MP3 Sousalves - Spirit Of NYC Woman
11 MP3 Songs in this album (35:29) !
Related styles: ROCK: Psychedelic, ROCK: Rock opera
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Sousalves, jailed for Rock N Roll !! .. once out, they found each other thanks to their inter-galactic vibrations... Mother Brain infused sounds with his no holes barred stylin'' on the drums.. and they took their Trainwreck Rock Opera throughout NYC, down to Texas to document it all and spread the spirit.. they''ll be touching all of your stars one by one .. strap yourselves in.. enjoy the ride...
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Album review: Sousalves â€" Spirit of NYC Woman
Incendiary, twisted, quintessentially New York rock
from one of its better guitar-wielding denizens. Paul
Alves AKA Sousalves plays all the instruments here
except the drums, slashing and scratching out a wired,
distorted, strung-out concoction that sometimes eerily
resembles legendary French rockers Noir Desir (whose
frontman Bertrand Cantat murdered his girlfriend in a
coke-fueled rage). There’s some vintage Gun Club
somewhere in there, too, it seems. Sousalves likes
minor keys, percussive riffs where the guitar doubles
the rhythm of the drums, and the occasional evil
chromatic hook. The whole album has a hallucinatory,
5 AM, out-too-late, out-of-control feel. It opens with
a dirty instrumental passage that segues into Silver
Shoes, which could be Noir Desir…or could be early
Midnight Oil, from the days when they were a metal
band. The cd’s title track features another notable
Lower East Side denizen, Deborah Sassiver, playing
Nico to Sousalves’ Lou here, adding layers of
eerie,watery vocals to this cut and several others as
well. The album’s next cut Passin Thru begins with a
tinkling arpeggio played on what sounds like a koto,
building to a titanic yet impressively terse,
feedback-infused guitar solo before fading back to
quiet again. The following track Tail Another Chase is
as predictably warped as the title would imply, driven
by a pounding chromatic riff. After that, Making It
Happen takes it down a notch for a couple of minutes
before reverting to the percussive fire of the rest of
the album.
There’s ostensibly a video of Sousalves playing a
live acoustic version of the next cut, Dance Tango,
circulating on the internet somewhere: that’s a good
thing, because this electric version strangely
doesn’t have the hypnotic intensity of the unplugged
take. The next song Painted It Black appeared on
Sousalves’ previous ep …To Self and sounds
something like what the Red Hot Chili Peppers would
have done if they weren’t so interested in being
rock stars. The highlight of the album, End of Your
Rainbow reverts to a scorched-earth, nouveau Noir
Desir fury, the odd tempo and ascending progression of
the bridge exploding into its killer chorus. Sousalves
closes the cd with a couple of hypnotic tracks,
Waiting to Kiss You For Days which builds to a
Jefferson Airplane-esque funk groove, and the quieter
Meridians, with its neat trick ending. It’s a
cliché but they really don’t make rock like this
much anymore: fans of late great bands like the Chrome
Cranks, Honeymoon Killers and Knoxville Girls will
love this. Caveat â€" this album won’t really sound
good unless you play it loud.
Sousalves plays the cd release for this album at
Midway (the old Guernica space) at 10 PM on Tues May
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