DEAD BROTHERS
Day of the Dead (Voodoo Rhythm)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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I made the mistake of putting this on over at my parents' house, and was immediately subjected by my father, an instructor at the local music industry trade school, to some snide comment about how this sounded "pretty 60's-ish," which, to him, means it's good - and it also means that he thinks he's won me over to his side of the taste barrier. This time, however, I was able to snort back, "You're right, if you mean the 1860's," as the song in question, "La Paloma" was written back in 1861 by Sebastián de Iradler y Salaverri. You'd have to have been there to get the full impact of the story, but trust me, it was hilarious. The rest of the disc is a collection of covers of everyone from The Cramps to cowboy ballads to traditional funeral marches reaching back hundreds of years, all of them rendered and remade wonderfully by this folk/experimental/Armenian country'n'western ensemble.

[Pick this up at www.voodoorhythm.com.]

© 2002 - Holly Day