| Fontanelle / Style Drift |
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| Album: | Style Drift | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Fontanelle | Added: | 11/2002 | |
| Label: | Kranky | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-01-06 | Pull Date: | 2003-03-10 |
| Week Ending: | 2 Mar | 23 Feb | 9 Feb | 2 Feb | 26 Jan | 19 Jan | 12 Jan |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 13, 2004: | Distraction-Limited Insterstices | 4. | Feb 20, 2003: | Baptism Of Solitude James Going | |
| 2. | Feb 26, 2003: | Fine Tuning Utopia James Going | 5. | Feb 08, 2003: | Mais non peut-etre Just Go Crazy | |
| 3. | Feb 26, 2003: | strange attractors Red Light Green Light | 6. | Feb 01, 2003: | Mais non peut-etre Just Go Crazy |
| Album Review |
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| KZSU Music Department Reviewed 2003-01-29 | ||
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You might've remembered Rex Ritter from Seattle/Portrland space/psych explorers Jessamine. Fontanelle is this incredibly sexy*, Funky (yep sooo damn funky it deserves a capital 'F'!), electro-jazz outfit. If you dig stuff like Herbie Hancock Headhunters-era stuff, Weather Report, Kraftwerk weened on American Blaxploitation (as opposed to Germanic Futurism), and um.... I think this is more Dead Kenny G's area o' expertise... Anyway, it's TRUE, freaky, groovey funk action all the way through. 1.) Slithering, warbling, space-funk from a better version of satin pantsed Buck Rodgers show. Thus, bringing up pre-"Silver Spoons" memories of Erin Grey. Me-ow! 2.) Awwww yeah! Total freaky, robotic, slow & slinky action. I tink R2-D2 is gettin' it on here, too! 3.) Waay looow down jazz-funk, nice drum fills here & there, too. 4.) Spacey twinkels (left over tonalities from Jessamine? Hmmm...) crossed with some interstellar wah-wah trickling down yo' ass. 5.) 70's model Stevie Wonder visits Portland whilst doing halftime jams for the American Basketball Association whilst Ralf & Florian of Kraftwerk discuss new technologies 6.) By the 'fro of Stanley Clarke (Nixon/Ford-era of course) this is dripping wit the tastiness, the grooviness, that is well. Thee Funk! 7.) Robots barking out messages in some strange Issac Asimov meets Melvin Peebles multi-verse whilst Miles' "Bitches Brew" band steps into the jam. To paraphrase Throbbing Gristle: Seven Jazz-Funk Greats! Tips da scale on my funkiness meter. (* = and yeah I mean that in a "you should totally listen to this & make love to it!" kinda way) --- Ragnar of Ravensfjord (Ravensfunk? Naaaah maybe not...) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Insterstices | 4. | James Going | |||
| 2. | Just Go Crazy | 5. | Style Drift | |||
| 3. | Scissure | 6. | Red Light Green Light | |||
| 7. | Monday Morning | |||||