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Bob Drake

Bob's Drive-In

Label: Crumbling Tomes Archive

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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€14.00
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A set of twisty, forty-ideas-a-minute, niftily arranged, irredeemably eccentric, but strangely brilliant songs that skip blithely across genre borders - from Nashville through the Miskatonic by way of the Beach Boys… even the production values range across the history of recording, sometimes switching inside a single song; so it’s a high-information ride - but still engagingly listenable. So far so good: another crafted, dense, idiosyncratic studio album. Now comes the twist. Finished with his versions, Bob Drake now sends the raw songs – melody and chords only – to  Dave Kerman (ds), David Campbell (bs, vc) and Kavus Torabi (guit, vc) and, a few months later, they all assemble at the Crumbling Tomes studio to work the songs up for a performance. Bob is in the band but the band is not being taught his interpretations and arrangements; it has to find its own. At the end of the rehearsal they give a show to an invited audience which is recorded, as it is. So now we have a second great album - quite different from Bob’s own. On the CD, both versions sit side-by-side, each very different, but still very closely linked to the other. Fun to listen to as well as being a study, if you are so inclined. That’s experimental.
Details
Cat. number: CTA 17
Year: 2011
Notes:
Tracks 1 to 14: Recorded between October 2010 and August 2011 at La Borde Basse, Caudeval, France. Tracks 15 to 25: Group arrangements recorded live 28 May 2011 at La Borde Basse, Caudeval, France. Studio version of "Sad And Indifferent Animals Wearing Scarves" misspelt as "Sad And Indifferent Animals Wearing Scarve" on rear track listing, but printed as "Scarves" on the lyric sheet and for the live version