Gamblers - Small World - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Globetrotters LP from 1970 was released to coincide with the highly popular Saturday morning cartoon show that made superstars out of the already famous Harlem basketball legends. The Globetrotters album is unique in that it transcended the kiddie market, and produced a huge beach-music hit with InchRainy Day Bells.Inch Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield penned half of the album, and the other half was written by bubblegum legends including Jeff Barry, Ron Dante, and Jamie Carr. All selections newly remastered. Album Tracks 1. The Globetrotters Theme 2. Globetrottin' 3. Bouncin' All Over the World 4. Sneaky Pete 5. Marathon Mary 6. River Queen 7. House Party 8. Gravy 9. Meadowlark 10. Lillia Peabody 11. Put a Little Meat on Your Bones 12. Rainy Day Bells 13. Cheer Me Up

Album Tracks 1. This Time It's Love 2. Elevator 3. Follow Your Heart 4. I Will Remember You 5. Teenage Magic 6. Walkin' the Streets 7. Valerie 8. After All 9. On the Road 10. Something Crazy 11. It Never Felt Like This 12. Even a Loser 13. Dirty Susie 14. Double Indemnity 15. Head Hunter 16. She's My Girl 17. Hotline 18. Life on the Line 19. I Put My Love

Broadly speaking, shredders are the pro wrestlers of music, trafficking in overwrought drama but devoid of soul, the realm of finger-tappers, fretboard lubricators, and those prone to viewing music as a competitive brawl. As such, the axe-slinger of conscience steers clear of shredding behavior, albeit every-so-often dexterously running the neck to tip listeners off that, you know, they 'really know how to play.' But for the typical avant-string consumer, shredding is beyond the pale.Which brings us to Cyrus Pireh's new Palilalia Thank You, Guitar, his latest stab at 'transcendental shred electric guitar music.' (Check out 'If I Can Play Fast Enough It Will Turn into Food and Shelter' on Bandcamp for a long-form embodiment of exactly what this means). Pireh, a self-professed anarchist and presumed enemy of music-as-sport, upcycles the 32nd-note neck sprint into a mesmeric boil played and recorded with little intervening electronic trickery other than a Digitech DD5 and mysterious amp modifications.The end result sounds like Pireh's plugged a quarter-inch jack into each of the listener's eardrums, a quick digital delay ping-ponging across the frontal lobes, the wet and dry signal of his 9-string axe all but indistinguishable. Indeed, Pireh views his maximalist double-handed scrabble as a mirror in which the listener might visualize all manner of details in it's rapidly self-propagating tonal and rhythmic tapestry.The title track, it's hairpin turns echoing Fred Frith's 'Hello Music'-another startling LP-opener-establishes this methodology immediately. ('What Are We Doing What Could Be Done', another Bandcamp track, taps this same ecstatic mojo). But far from languishing in razzle dazzle, each song tracks different tangential vectors, some (like 'Free Palestine') employing tape delay to smear the sounds into a muzzy, proto-psychedelic modality, with others stretching