Lemon Juice Quartet / Peasant Songs
Album: Peasant Songs   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Lemon Juice Quartet   Added:May 2002
Label:Piadrum  

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 19, 2002: Memory Select
Hungarian Peasant Song No. 3
3. Jun 14, 2002: Memory Select
Hungarian Peasant Song No. 12
2. Jul 10, 2002: Lick My Moody Guitar (sub for Baud of Euphony)
Trumpets of the ...
4. Jun 07, 2002: Memory Select
Hungarian Peasant Song No. 3

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2002-08-29
Klezmer jazz, sort of .... quartet led by jazzy trumpet and acoustic guitar, doing compositions by Bartok and Satie. The guitar, in particular, spells out the weird harmonies in some of these pieces (see tracks 2 and 5).

Good stuff with jazzy soloing, but it's not as fun as it could be. Track #1 hints and wild fun stuff, but the rest gets more buttoned-down. Still, the trumpet and drums keep up a crisp, loud level of energy throughout.

Track Listing
1. Bear Dance (10 Easy Pieces..   6. Sports and Leisure
2. Trumpets of the ...   7. Trumpets of the ...
3. Hungarian Peasant Songs ...   8. On a Lantern
4. Hungarian Peasant Song No...   9. Gnossienne No. 1
5. Hungarian Peasant Song No. 3   10. Dried Embryos
  11. Hungarian Peasant Song No. 6