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A fearless sense of experimentation has always been at the core of Oneida's approach, but their 2006 album HAPPY NEW YEAR found the band returning to the more nuanced sonic aesthetic first explored on 2005's THE WEDDING. Album opener "Distress" is driven by a medieval-sounding folk melody enhanced by a lovely chanted male/female vocal; the tripped-out singing that marks "Reckoning" is brought back to earth by gentle acoustic guitar lines; and "Busy Little Bee" even features a banjo. Oneida has always been a classic rock band at heart, though, albeit one with a penchant for squalls of psychedelic noise and stabbing keyboard hooks, and there's no shortage of either here. The live show favorite "Up With People" is of particular note, suggesting what Prince might sound like if he was backed by Faust. While HAPPY NEW YEAR doesn't necessarily raise the stakes on Oneida's artistry--they're pretty high by this point anyway--it's a solid addition to an already remarkable catalog.
Audio Mixers: Nicolas Vernhes; Barry London.
Recording information: Last Gasp Studios, Brooklyn, NY; Old South Church, Boston, MA; Rare Book Room, Brooklyn, NY; The Sunset Grill, Brooklyn, NY.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Busy Gangnes; Erica Fletcher; Shahin Motia; Philip Manley; Fred Wallace; Brad Truax; Emily Manzo; Stephanie Rabins.Entertainment Weekly (p.81) - "Oneida still imprint each song with their own warped sensibility, often with an undertow of synthesizer dissonance..."
Q (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an unorthodox approach that pulls in such disparate influences as The Grateful Dead, Krautrock and electronic noise, often in the space of the same song."
Uncut (p.91) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[E]lectronica, folk, folktroncia, big beat, psychedelia and Krautrock, all guided by Kid Millions' astounding drumming."
Magnet (p.102) - "[T]he top ingredients are dreamy '60s psych effects and pop vocal harmonies, with some '70s Italian prog-rock arrangements thrown in.....Lovely, creepy and groovy: These guys give eclecticism a good name." Oneida Happy New Year Songs Happy New Year Review
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Purchase Happy New Year CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Chills Kaleidoscope World CD (1986) (Import) Import; Australia
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While mainstream Soul in the U.S. is into 'parties, champagne and silk sheets', an anchronism has survived down South. Small independent record labels keep producing their 'cheating' dramas for a regional market. Here the Blues-drenched stories of Bobby Blue Band or Dicky Williams still have the potential to become hits. Southern Soul reaches down into the depths of human existence. A ritual that demands religious dedication from ist protagonists: gospel-like dramas excessively enact the pain, while proverbs such as "Love Don't love Nobody" touch on the unspeakable. Sobbing backround vocals, dragging horns and morbid church organs accompany the bands descending flight. The guitar may be out of tune, the drums out of time, the arrangement lacking. The message is never lost. Triknot. 2005.
This volume in Trikont's wonderfully eclectic, well-researched, American music series should have been called Dogged Again, the Dirty Blue Soul of the Deep South. Never has a collection of obscure, raging heartbreak songs like these been issued. These are "done wrong" songs, but they have an edge missing in so much of the period's R&B and blues. These songs believe in a love so pure, it can only be consummated by murder, suicide, or an act of divine intervention such is its emotional intensity. Even where the protagonist begs, such as Johnny Copeland on "Down on Bended Knees," there is a rage in his hurt, an anger barely hidden in the cage of his heart. And then there's the suicidal -- literally -- "Dead" by Ede Robin, who sings: "And then there's me along, with a razor in my hand/I remove my watchband." There's a B-3 blazing in the background and Illinois Jacquet blasting out the blues on his tenor before Robin comes back in, begging her lover not to do her "like that." When her spoken vocal whispers out at the end of the tune, we know how it ends. There is just so much bad-assed material here, almost all of it B-sides, discarded tracks, or singles played only on jukeboxes in the bars south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Shouters like Virgil Griffin come out and beg the Lord to abate his loneliness that has reached the pitch of anger. Only a power higher than himself can relieve his fear and misery. Elsewhere, Bill Brandon, Ella Brown, Betty Lavette, James Kelly Duhon, Ella Washington, Geater Adams, Juke ...
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