Wednesday 2 April 2014

GARY WINDO: Dogface - French review (translated)

http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmReview.aspx?ID=11030&REF=GARY-WINDO_Dogface



An album around dogs? Here's an original concept! Featuring some of our best friends like Rex, Lassie, Baxter and other pooches 'Dogface' first solo album pal Nick Mason, Gary Windo, forgotten priest saxophone Funky Soul and the instrumental finally reissued by Gonzo Multimedia. After accompanying various groups of Jazz and Progressive Rock English in the 70s ( Matching Mole , Centipede but Robert Wyatt ) with his group Gary Windo Quartet , he composed three solo albums including the "Dogface. And this first test is a wealth of spontaneity, brute force and renewed pleasure every time, this kind of album that leaves looping as it exudes a visceral energy, a certain magic and composed equally foreign from each other as pleasurable.

From the opener very rock 'n Roll "black bezel" boogie that dog' Guard Duty '(sometimes think this sound of the Pink Panther until Gary explodes atmosphere without Sax furious), the psyche and experimental spoken 'Rex And Spot ...' or mad fanfare of 'Hound' all copper (solo shared between a dog barking and barking sax Gary), each track is a party where the printing farce and ease soon gives way to heavy conducted brilliantly composed and fury (delusions solid guitars and tenor sax, alto clarinet master). The husky cheek Punk early days, 'Baxter' on holiday in Cuba and the cover of 'Do not Be Cruel' has never made much good humor between solo guitar and saxophone.Singing here and there for a nice variety in the exercise and voila!

A little crazy at times ('Dogface' or long intro of 'Lassie Breaks Out'), this album firework sticks with happiness at a time when genres collided with force and brutality, where the horizons opened experimentation and where Jazz, Rock and Soul is crashed into blows piano, guitar, phrasing typed and of course Sax. Thank you Gonzo Production, Gary Windo, more than twenty years after his death, can finally make another name!


CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT GONZO:

Steam Radio Tapes
CD - £9.99

Dog Face
CD - £9.99

Deep Water
CD - £9.99


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