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Additional personnel includes: Nicolai Dunger (vocals); Thomas Tjarnqwist (12-string guitar); Tony Crow (keyboards).
The ever-prolific Arizona ensemble Calexico's CONVICT POOL EP offers a mix of covers and original tunes. The title track is a hauntingly spare song featuring only founding members Joey Burns and John Convertino, with Burns's vocals taking on a more emotive quality than that of his usually hushed delivery. "Sirena" includes the full band and mines Calexico's Latino leanings, while the Minutemen song "Corona" is transformed into a boisterous mariachi tune. The high point of the EP, however, proves to be the group's take on the Love song "Alone Again Or" (also notably covered by the Damned). Here Calexico joins forces with Scandinavian singer Nicolai Dunger for an amazingly catchy, acoustic-guitar-driven version of this '60s pop classic, showcasing the most dynamic elements of the consistently intriguing Calexico sound.
Collection Of Originals And Covers.
Recorded at Wedgewood, Nashville, Tennessee; Water Works, Wavelab Studios, Tucson, Arizona.
Calexico: Joey Burns (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, accordion, synthesizer, bass); Paul Niehaus (pedal steel guitar); Martin Wenk, Jacob Valenzuela (trumpet); Volker Zander (bass); John Convertino (drums).
This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.CMJ (p.7) - "CONVICT POOL finds Calexico playing their shimmering brass parts and acoustic fingerpicking across six songs....Calexico has appeal across the board." Convict Pool Music | List Price | $9.98 (You save $1.13) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Post Rock CDs, Rock, Enhanced CD | | Label | Quarterstick | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  16157  | | CD Universe Part number | 6705643 | | Catalog number | 90 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 06, 2004 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Joey Burns - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, accordion, synthesizer, bass
John Convertino - drums
Martin Wenk
Jacob Valenzuela - trumpet
Paul Niehaus - pedal steel guitar
Volker Zander - bass
Also: Tony Crow, Nicolai Dunger, Thomas Tjarnqwist | | Additional Info | Extended Play |
Convict Pool Music Review Purchase Convict Pool CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Calexico Spoke CD (1997)
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While Calexico's 1997 debut album, SPOKE, contains strong hints of what was to come for the group, it clearly stands as an early point in their evolution. The hazy spaghetti-Western Mexicana that would later become so prevalent pops up at a few points here, but doesn't dominate the album. Multi-instrumentalists John Convertino and Joey Burns had only recently splintered off from Giant Sand, and the ...
| | Calexico Even My Sure Things Fall Through CD (2001) Extended Play
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On Even My Sure Things Fall Through, Tucson's Calexico compiles eight European B-sides, remixes, covers, and other unreleased tracks, as well as three CD-ROM videos. Such albums often come off as hastily compiled and shoddily sequenced, but Calexico's attempt at a rarities release is surprisingly coherent. From the then-unreleased opener, "Sonic Wind (Instrumental Mix)," to the elegantly lush remake of American Music Club's "Chanel No. 5," the 45-plus minute EP manages to showcase wonderfully the band's deserted desert songs, Tex-Mex music, and arid roots rock. And while diehards may more fully appreciate having these hard to find titles all on one domestically released album, Even My Sure Things Fall Through should prove to be a mini treasure ...
| | Calexico Feast Of Wire CD (2003)
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Calexico streamlined its eclectic sound a bit on this 2003 release, adding a pop sensibility to the band's already-exciting mixture of Latin-tinged Southwestern twang and jazzy, atmospheric sophistication. Most notably, FEAST OF WIRE features more of multi-instrumentalist Joey Burns's voice (Burns co-founded the band along with drummer John Convertino). On "Quattro (World Drifts In)," which combines Burns's under-the-radar singing with a guitar-driven song structure, Calexico sounds like it might even sneak onto mainstream FM radio. But the breezy accessibility is deceptive, because, over the course of FEAST, the ensemble is remarkably experimental and adventurous.
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| | Greg Porae Inventions Pre-Release CD (2008)
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The recording process of Greg's third solo album, 'Inventions' was a very time intense project: Twenty-one different musicians had to be coordinated - recording artists who had tight time schedules; played other gigs, were touring world-wide and/or were recording their own albums. But fans were becoming impatient! They wanted to hear Greg's new CD - especially because he was playing most of the new tunes live with his band. That is why we (Greg Porée & Frances Livings) produced and manufactured the CD 'Inventions Pre-release'. ...
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