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Spanish Dance Troupe (Import) (CD)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Spanish Dance Troupe (Import) (CD) Album By Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
1   Hallway  
2   Poodle Rockin'  
3   She Lives On A Mountain  
4   Drws  
5   Over And Out  
6   Don't You Worry  
7   Faraway Eyes  
8   Fool  
9   Hair Like Monkey  
10   Spanish Dance Troupe  
11   Desolation Blues  
12   Murder Ballad  
13   Freckles  
14   Christmas Eve  
15   Humming Song  
 

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Review

Mojo (11/99, p.117) - "...nutty freshness, bite and humor....wistful tenderness....if this record doesn't charm your socks off, you're in need of a heart transplant."
Alternative Press (2/00, p.83) - 4 out of 5 - "...a beautiful album, all string-driven thingies and tinkling pianos, evocative of...a dark day on the mountaintops, watching boggarts grimace in the gathering gloaming....This band will never settle down. God bless them."
CMJ (11/29/99, p.3) - "...it's clear that the group fabricates a surreptitious grandeur, a secret garden of small-scale instrumental and lyrical delights that creep up around you song by song."
No Depression (3-4/00, p.123) - "...the album moves like a suite, with brief instrumentals and interludes connecting a brisk set of songs heavy on folky ballads..."

Product note

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Euros Childs, John Lawrence, Richard James, Euros Rowlands, Magan Childs.
Additional personnel: Oscar Owen (vocals); Edwyn Humphreis, Euros Wyn (woodwinds); Tony Robinson (brass).
Engineers: Gorwel Owen, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
Recorded from September 1998 to May 1999.

Album Description

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's sixth album, Spanish Dance Troupe, is also their first for their U.S. label, Beggar's Banquet. As with Barafundle and Gorky 5, this collection of songs focuses on the accessible side of the group's gently iconoclastic folk-rock. That doesn't mean that Spanish Dance Troupe has much in common with the rest of the late-'90s music scene, however. Though psychedelic, country, and '70s pop elements spring up here and there, the Gorkys' songs are untouched by musical trends or fashions. The wistful violins, piano, and brass on "Don't You Worry," "Murder Ballad," and "She Lives on a Mountain" seem more inspired by traditional folk songs and vaudeville tunes than any hyphenated, postmodern genres. Acoustic interludes like "Drws" and "The Fool" are scattered throughout the album, drawing it even further away from modern rock's increasingly self-referential tendencies. But when the Gorkys decide to go pop, they do it wholeheartedly. Noisy guitars and smooth harmonies make "Poodle Rockin'" -- a song that's as cute and weird as the title suggests -- and "Desolation Blues" as distinctive as Spanish Dance Troupe's quieter moments. "Faraway Eyes" is a wonderful, bittersweet country song disguised as pop, uniting the group's sometimes contradictory musical ideas into a cohesive sound. Above all, the group's sincerity shines through on Spanish Dance Troupe, inviting listeners along for an eclectic, entertaining ride. ~ Heather Phares

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