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Blues Du Jour by Maher Shalal Hash Baz (geog24cdp)

Blues Du Jour by Maher Shalal Hash Baz (geog24cdp)

a review by interphaze of
release format Blues Du Jour by Maher Shalal Hash Baz (geog24cdp)

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The music of Maher Shalal Hash Baz seems tied to warm hazy childhood, sunflower yellow memories of pop music heard in english kitchens and linoleum floors of holiday time aunty visits of the nineteen seventies.

It floats effortlessly from salvation army brass band renditions of Velvet Underground inspired elegance, off kilter soundtrack slouchs, latin flavored bossa nova , to the absolute genius pop of tracks like "Whats Your Business Here Elijah", all muffled soft drums and swaying string crescendoes.

Like polaroid snapshots, the essence of the moment distilled, like thumbnail sketches, blurred ideas in motion, the sound in perfect purity, spacious enough for your mind to add garnish and imagine the endless possibility - 41 tracks of hybrid homegrown japanese/celtic folk music, mostly all coming in at under a minute in length - heady, lanarkshire mushroom clouded diatribes, buckfast lubricated stream of consciousness, a school orchestra amok with triangles, recorders and flutes.

A wonderful gem of a record, their second full length on the Geographic label, which is two thirds operated by legendary Glasgow twee kids The Pastels, and home to past releases by Bill Wells, Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair, International Airport and Future Pilot AKA amongst others.

Posted by interphaze at 23:01, 16 Jan 2004