Diverse Brooklyn Collective Readies March 2007 Release Anti- is pleased to announce the signing of diverse Brooklyn-based musical collective Antibalas. The acclaimed, socially and politically-minded group – with an active lineup of about a dozen musicians – recently wrapped work in Chicago with producer John McEntire of Tortoise on its …
Tom Waits -- "Orphans" (Anti-) **** Talk about cleaning our your closet. The one-of-a-kind Waits unleashes a dizzying and dazzling collection of 54 songs, including 30 new ones, that add up to three hours of music, enough to satisfy even the most ravenous of his cult of fans. "Orphans" is …
About halfway through an hour-long conversation on phone lines that occasionally crack and fizzle as if they are being gnawed, the talk turns to moles. ''In the mole community, they honor and decorate moles for having tunneled beneath great rivers,'' Tom Waits says, apropos of nothing, in his inimitable dirt-road …
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After talking about music and death for an hour, Tom Waits looks out a window, sees a bird, and mentions of those facts he keeps in a notebook. "Vultures have holes in the tops of their heads," he says. "It allows them to breathe while they have their heads stuffed …
Waits swings for the fences and scores on this set with 56 songs (30 new recordings), each of the three CDs divided by theme. Disc one, "Brawlers," is Waits the ever-idiosyncratic but deep-rooted junkyard rocker; "Lie to Me" captures the rocketship rockabilly Suicide strove for; "Low Down" pushes like an …