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Happy nihilist Tonio K. returns after his critically acclaimed Life in the Foodchain with a stronger, even more sardonic record, Amerika. With tight riffs and intelligent lyrics, Tonio K. rocks hard on this one. But if an album's message can make one want to walk into traffic, this is it. Every song here espouses the end of all hope, the absence of values, the hopelessness of the human condition -- all sung with intelligence and wit (from "Say Goodbye": "The signs are everywhere/Only no one even cares/This paradise is dying/Say goodbye"). Most notable is the Dada tribute in the final track, "Merzsuite," which is divided into three sections ("Let Us Join Together in a Tune," "Umoré," and "Futt Futt Futt"). A lot of fun. Tonio K. is punk for academics. Lots of literary and political references. Lots of words in foreign languages (he admits in the CD reissue liner notes that he doesn't know what the foreign words mean, but he can look them up). A fun recording all around. ~ Mark W.B. Allender
Called "a rousing original" by Rolling Stone when he burst onto the scene in 1978 with the classic "Life in the Foodchain" album, Tonio K. has had a rabid following since that release (Stereo Review called his debut "the greatest album ever recorded," then said that "Amerika" replaced it in that spot when it was released two years later!).
Includes liner notes by Tonio K.
Personnel: Tonio K. (vocals, guitar, piano, drums); Jeanie Reed (vocals, percussion); Ike Willis (vocals); Nick VanMaarth (guitar, background vocals); Garth Hudson (accordion); Jay Gruska (organ); Paul Hertzog (keyboards); Claude Pepper (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jolly Chimp (percussion); J.E.D., Jon ?, Peter Frieberger (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Nick VanMaarth.
Audio Remasterer: Jonathan Wyner.
Recording information: SoundCastle (1980).
Photographer: Dorothy White.
Arrangers: Nick VanMaarth; Tonio K. Amerika Music | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, New Wave | | Label | Gadfly | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  46918  | | CD Universe Part number | 1079148 | | Catalog number | 226 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 25, 1997 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Jon Devirian; Nick VanMaarth; Tonio K. | | Engineer | Nick VanMaarth; Bill Bottrell | | Recording Time | 38 minutes | | Personnel | Garth Hudson - accordion
Ike Willis - vocals
Jay Gruska - organ
Jon
Claude Pepper - drums, percussion, background vocals
Nick VanMaarth - guitar, background vocals
Tonio K. - vocals, guitar, piano, drums
Jed
Paul Hertzog - keyboards
Jeanie Reed - vocals, percussion
Jolly Chimp - percussion
Peter Frieberger - background vocals
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Tonio K Amerika Songs | 1. | One Big Happy Family |
| 2. | Say Goodbye |
| 3. | Sons of the Revolution |
| 4. | Go Away |
| 5. | Cinderella's Baby |
| 6. | Trouble |
| 7. | Girl Crazy |
| 8. | I'll Buy It |
| 9. | Night Fast Rodney Went Crazy, The |
| 10. | Merzsuite: Let Us Join Together in a Tune/Umore/Futt Futt Futt/Umore: Let Us Join Together In A Tune / Umore (A Memoir De Jacques Vache) / Futt Futt Futt |
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Purchase Amerika CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tonio K Life In The Foodchain CD (1978)
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One of the best things about the late-'70s punk rock explosion is that it changed the rules for pop musicians across the board, and while Tonio K. wasn't a for-real punk rocker (or even really new wave), there's no way he could have made an album as willfully strange and bitterly witty as Life in the Foodchain without Elvis Costello or Johnny Rotten first raising the stakes in the rock outrage department. ...
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Tonio K's fifth full-length album was originally slated to be released in 1990 on the heels of Notes From the Lost Civilization, thus completing his trio of comeback recordings. Due to the inherent nature of corporate restructuring, however, this project was canned by A&M only to see the light of day seven years later courtesy of Gadfly Records. This album, while being denied a final mix due to financial and political constraints, continues stylistically in the vein of Notes From the Lost Civilization. Tonio K's patented form of intelligent funky roots rock and commentary-laced ballads is complemented greatly ...
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This is an uneven rarities/retrospective package from one of pop music's most underrated writers and misunderstood characters -- uneven because that's the reality of Tonio K's professional career. Beginning as a member of the posthumous Buddy Holly backing band the Crickets in the early to mid-'70s under his given name Steve Krikorian, Tonio K made a real name for himself in the late '70s as America's outrageous answer to the British "angry young man" phenomenon carved out by Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, among others. Needless to say he never achieved the notoriety of those two but as these songs will attest Tonio K could be every bit as clever and ...
| | Tonio K Yugoslavia CD (1999)
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Let's clear up a possible confusion right up front. From its cover, you might think Tonio K.'s Yugoslavia was a collection of traditional ethnic music. After all, the photograph ("courtesy of the Yugoslav tourist office, circa 1958," the singer notes) depicts two Eastern European men in traditional garb, ...
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Recorded in Memphis during the late 1960s, HOME SWEET HOME is a wonderfully off-the-cuff example of the seemingly endless stream of musical creativity and strange brilliance that Memphis has to offer. Originally released in 1970 on Stax, though having few similarities with the sound and style that made that label famous, HOME SWEET HOME is studio whiz/hepcat Terry Manning's unique musical gumbo of blues, '60s psychedelia, R&B, and frat rock. Manning did nearly all the recording and playing himself (although he does get some help from a few friends, including Big Star's Chris Bell in what is believed to be Bell's first appearance on tape) over a two-year period at the famed Ardent studios. A strange album if there ever was one (check out the 10-minute-plus opening cover of George Harrison's "Savoy Truffle"), HOME SWEET HOME is by record folks for record folks: instead of listening to them at 3:00 a.m. with a bunch of friends, imagine making one.
Terry Manning's 1970 solo album, Home Sweet Home, started off as something of a joke when he recorded a deliberately over the top psychedelic version of the Box Tops' "Choo Choo Train." When Stax Records asked for a whole album of such material, Home Sweet Home was the result. Like "Choo Choo Train" (included on the final LP), the album as a whole was over the top psychedelia, and indeed over the top mimicking of several manners of late-'60s trendy excess in hard rock, blues-rock, and soul music. There's a tongue firmly planted in its cheek, however, which keeps it from being as tough an exercise to sit through as the records it was poking fun at -- though only just. Whether it's a ten-minute version of the Beatles' "Savoy Truffle" (with early Moog effects), ...
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=======================================================JOSHUA GOODMAN - piano / compositions / leader=======================================================Jazz pianist/composer Joshua Goodman began his musical training in Montreal in classical music at age 6, but would pursue an undeniable jazz calling through his teens, eventually arriving at McGill University in the Jazz Studies program under Fred Henke. His post-grad studies would take him to New York City, where he would become an avid student of the legendary Barry Harris. Returning to Canada and armed with Harris' acclaimed bebop knowledge base, he began to perform regularly throughout Canada, pausing to attend the Banff Jazz Program in 1994. This experience would unlock more doors for Joshua, whose affiliations with Pat LaBarbera, Hugh Fraser, John Clayton & Kenny Wheeler would catalyze more playing opportunities in America and Europe, before heading to California to continue post-graduate studies at California Universities. There, while becoming a regular in the San Franciso and Los Angeles. jazz circuit, he would record with virtuoso vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and, after studies with legendary Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes, would go on to win first prize at the Latin Jazz Festival in Reno, California. 2002 saw Joshua return to Toronto, Canada to build his working quintet featuring some of the country's most in demand and decorated jazz musicians of this generation of players. He is considered one of the exciting new post-bop voices on the scene in Toronto, as his national reputation continues to grow.=======================================================BROWNMAN - trumpet=======================================================Born in Trinidad, schooled in New York City under iconic trumpeter Randy Brecker's watchful eye and now heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpeter" by New York City's Village Voice magazine, the ever dynamic Brownman tirelessly leads no less than 7 highly respected genre-spanning ensembles of ...
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