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MAKE A SUPER REQUEST on TRIPLE J
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to JJJ
TOLD YOU SO
SHADOW OF A MAN
LIGHT SLEEPER
. . . or
request your fiavourite . . .
What people are
saying:
"Pretty snazzy I have to say"
Jordie Kilby .
. . TripleJ Radio
"From
the very first chord the slinky groove insinuates itself under your skin"
Michael
Smith . . . Drum Media
"This
album delivers with tasteful ease.
Bright Black Sky is a fantastic release showing versatility and poise"
Glen McVey . .
. Stix Magazine
"A
talented original voice where many are copyists"
Al Ward . . .
Director
Blue Mountains Folk, Blues and Roots Festival
"Great
musicianship and vocal techniques.
Passionate, real fire in the belly stuff"
NSW Folk Federation
"Provides the listener with a powerful kick in the stomach, hitting the right spot.
Give (Bright Black Sky) a chance and you might find at least one nugget of gold"
The
Canberra Review
"Listeners
will be taken on a spiritual journey"
The Fairfield Advance
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"Picking up All The Pieces"
Artist: Jimmi Carr Band
Album: All the Pieces
Label: Vitamin
The third release from songwriter Jimmi Carr serves us up a double album; one electric, one acoustic [Foo Fighter
style].
The first is fast and energetic whilst the second explores the folk roots of the JCB.
Hailing from the Blue Mountains, the Jimmi Carr Band
bring spirit to their music with inspired song writing
and
soulful tunes. I wasn’t a big fan of Jimmi’s last album, despite his
obvious talent, but ‘All the Pieces’ seems altogether more accessible
to me and thus more
rewarding for the listener.
Hats off for releasing the double album too, an immense sense of value (unlike ‘Use your Illusion’ 1 & 2).
These cats played the Rails in December, so have probably picked up a swag of new fans either way. Worth a listen.
Jungle Jim
BYRON SHIRE NEWS
20 December 2007
"Bright
Black Sky"
"Jimmi
Carr's second long player bursts from the ranks with quiet confidence. Starting with
cruisy summer music and just a touch of melancholy, Jimmi's lyrics are strongly influenced
by topics of the heart and social commentary. His songs are often snap shot close ups into
the life of their subject, given perspective with the distance of time.
Musically,
Bright Black Sky unwinds like an old timey record, split into two sides, each with a
driving push of groove rock at the finish line. The album starts with a mixture of
delicate sentiment and fragile yearning and builds up to the casual groove rock of songs
such as "Stand and Deliver". Stepping up again in intensity to the
rock/funk/hiphop eclecticism of "Light Sleeper", where Jimmi is ably assisted by
HERMITUDE. At nearly every step this album delivers with tasteful ease. Backing vocals,
organ, strings and horns are all utilized to great effect. All round Bright Black Sky is a
fantastic release showing versatility and poise. I can't wait to see how it will translate
to the live stage.
Glen McVey
STIX Magazine
"The
Recipe"
"From
the very first chord, the slinky groove insinuates itself under your skin. This is one
singer songwriter who knows the value of the groove, and why not? After all, Carr has been
a bass player as long as he's been an acoustic guitar-toting singer songwriter and plays
it right across THE RECIPE, so that even his playing approach to the acoustic has
something of that swirling, churning energy and momentum that a good rhythm section can
generate. In that sense, Jimmi Carr is much closer to the John Butler/iOTA end of the
singer songwriter spectrum than, say, a Pete Murray. Carr is essentially a funk rocker at
heart, and that aint no bad thing.
Even the the lyrics can evoke rhythms as much as much as they do images, ideas and
intimacies. Thats not to say that Carr loses anything in the realm of melody in doing
that. Its just words tend to run effortlessly in and around the rhythmic structures, while
the rhythms he and drummer/co-pruducer, ( Pete Drummond ), employ weave sinuously in and
out of the melodies with an equal effortlessness. Good examples of that almost uncanny
symbiosis in action would be KIND OF LIES, MOBALIZE, LOVE AND OXYGEN, and THE BRIDGE, just
for starters, all exibiting tightly worked and contrasting sections, beutifully textured
and provocatively arranged.
As I suggested in my story on Carr a couple of months ago, the title track itself takes
you into that place where folk, pop, groove and beat poetry meet. That easy collision of
styles essentially sums up whats going on across the album- slapping bass, chunky riffs,
pointed lyrics that wax between desire and despair, hard grooves and high-hats. If I might
nick one of Carr's own song titles, theres a swampy feel, particularly on a cut like I OWE
{all I own}, but generally, that gives THE RECIPE a feel that really does seem to lie
"BETWEEN TH SLIME AND THE SIBLIME". That's a generalisation of course - it
doesn't fit the gentler "LITTLE WONDER" or, for me at least, the weakest song on the record,
"MUSIC MAN" for all the truth of its lyric. This recipe is pure whitefella gumbo."
Michael
Smith
DRUM Media
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