Slipper - When Hot Dogs Fly (Mechanism, ottobre 2004)
Se nello scorso Earworms gli Slipper di Sam Dodson (ex Loop Guru) ci
avevano presentato un funambolico cocktail in bilico tra suggestioni da soundtrack,
jazzismi liquidi e sequenze strumentali dal sapore lounge e alieno (e persino riferimenti
dada-trash surreali à la Residents), per When Hot Dogs Fly il
sound dellíensemble vira verso calde atmosfere da cocktail lounge e rivisitazioni
dellíexotica dei í50, tra aperture cinematiche e soundtrack per sfilate di Armani.
In questo nuovo lavoro troviamo una line up completamente stravolta rispetto al precedente
trio: con la dipartita di Linda Finger (canto) e Rat Scabies (batteria) e l'ingresso
dell'altra Guru, Andrea Black (più ospiti quali Neil Sparkes dei Temple
Of Sound e John Woodley al theremin), non c'è più traccia delle asprezze
e bizzarie del passato; in compenso cíè spazio per arrangiamenti decisamente
esotici e relaxing che non si vergognano di tirare in ballo sezioni díarchi cinematiche
à la Goldfrapp, cromature scure nello stile dei Portishead (i sample, gli scratch
sempre in Life Is Hip, líandamento sincopato della soffice Mini), vocalizzi
in odor di Björk (ancora il brano Mini, When Hot Dogs Fly e Everybody's
Jazz), e soprattutto le reminiscenze divesque sulla falsariga dei Propellerheads
(Black in Life Is Hip e Some New Day), il tutto calato nel rodato cocktail
trans-etnico al Cubase del famoso gruppo madre.
Il titolo When Hot Dogs Fly non deve dunque ingannare: ci troviamo
di fronte a un album estivo, meridionale e al tempo post-moderno e demodè, dove
sapori latini si mescolano delicatamente a fragranze e spezie esotiche: il martini
cocktail da veranda Red Silhouette (interessante líassolo di fisarmonica a bocca
sul finale), il blues liquido in salsa jazzy à la Piero Umiliani della
title track e nelle calli arabesche - tra basso Laswell-iano e persussioni
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - di One Light On.
Un album vario, che nonostante líottima performance della sua protagonista assoluta
- la versatile primadonna Andrea Black - e una produzione dei più alti livelli
(alcune tracce sono state registrate in Dolby Surround 5.1), rischia però di
consumarsi inesorabilmente ascolto dopo ascolto. Se da una parte i vocalizzi tra
Marylin Monroe, Bjork e Beth Gibbons sono mirabili e mirabolanti
e gli arrangiamenti coloratissimi e scintillanti, forse vi è stato un poí troppo
compiacimento nellíassemblare questo finissimo collage che alla fin fine ripercorre
- e ripete - quello che probabilmente oggi, a più di dieci anni dallo sdoganamento
della trans-etnica, è ormai un clichè.
In definitiva, un disco non indicato a chi è a caccia di sperimentazioni (come
i vecchi fan degli Slipper prima maniera), che tuttavia non mancherà di suscitare
interesse in chi è a digiuno di queste sonorità.
(6.5/10)
Sentire Ascoltare.com - Edoardo Bridda
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Slipper feat. Andrea Black - When Hot Dogs Fly
A chance to slip back into the private movies of ones mind as the exotic Slipper
wish you away to warmer climes and bewitch you once again with musical spells. A
black and white dream world with splashes of colour, an open top car pulls up on
a dusty road in front of a tumbledown shack, salsa beats fall from a crackly radio
and the band jump from the car in purple velvet dinner jackets, instruments at the
ready followed by a mysterious feline imbued lady. They take to the stage and gently
glide into a string of divine tunes that cut through the darkness and the smoke to
reveal psychedelic halos floating above their heads. The spirits flow from glasses
and loosen the hips in a hazy out of focus dance while the singer weaves an incantation
in that silky voice that mingles with the curling fronds of cigarette smoke and wind
round every fibre of your body. Elastic bass sounds rub against jazz beats that glide
over the crystal flow of electronica while the voice of a temptress works as a siren
luring us to crash at their feet and they make it so easy for us to float in their
direction. You sit at the bar and play your harmonica and realise they are gone in
a cloud of dust and radio interference, their laughter floating off into the starry
sky. Back to reality and you realise that Slipper have produced another classy album
that really is quite unlike anything else out there at the moment. Grebo
The Word
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'When Hot Dogs Fly' Elsewhen by Slipper featuring Andrea Black is pop dance with
a few quirky bjorkish tendencies.......
Belfast Telegraph
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Slipper "When hot Dogs Fly"
Slipper are an augmented duo comprising a member of Loop Guru on 'electronic devices'
and one Andrea Black. She sings in the Betty Boop-on-acid mode beloved of fey hipsters
in lounges everywhere and writes songs with such titles as "Life is Hip".
"Blooos" begins "I was leaving myself in the wind, like a chime".
"Red Silhouette" commences "I've been looking at the lines of my hand/
keys to the future". So you'll gather that this is neither Wittgenstein nor
Dr Feelgood. What it is is a "cool" lounge/jazz/electronica hybrid, with
solipsistic lifestyle poetry slipped on top. some of the grooves are finger-clickingly
attractive
The Independent On Sunday
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SLIPPER "WHEN HOT DOGS FLY"
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Just what you need for Christmas, some new Slipper.
The lounge wizards have had a major line-up change that leaves little of the existing
crew on board. This Slipper album is essentially the work of singer Andrea Black
and Loop Guru's Sam Dodson, and jolly fine it is too.
Jazz chanteuse Black has made a brave and admirable decision not to go down the trad
route (which would have bagged her a guest spot on Parky) to hook up instead with
the purveyors of queesy listening. Dodson throws samples and sounds together in a
wonderfully instinctive way,doing for lounge music what Fatboy Slim does for dance
music ie. injecting some manic fun.
Don't expect much in the way of traditional verse chorus structure here, these loose
'songs' tend to ebb and flow. it's appropriate that the album opens with a skim through
the airwaves as it frequently sounds as if your tuned in to two stations at once
playing records that just happen to be in the same key.
there's dashes of theremin, double bass and harmonica and all manner of percussive
and ambient samples drawn from the ends of the earth to enliven the latin rhythms
of this skewed sonic trickery.
Highlights are the unstoppable scratching that dances around the opener 'Life is
Hip' the bjorkisms of 'Mini' and the evocation of a jazz cafe in a far-off exotic
place on 'One Light On'.
Black doesn't always sound entirely convincing in her kookyness, but there are more
than enough magic moments on here to make up for that.
Yorkshire Evening Post
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Slipper featuring Andrea Black "When Hot Dogs Fly"
A suitably odd title for an album that is rarely ordinary and certainly not for easy
labeling. Much of the off piste, sensual and at times plain odd direction of this
electronica meets jazz experience lies with Andrea Black who's voice strays from
velvet and gin to Bjork.
Featuring members of Loop Guru - Sam from that act runs the label - this collection
issues the seductive, if edgy, curiosity you would expect of Goldfrapp but changes
shape at such a rate as to make comparisons brief.
Hip hop elements underpin fresh water vocals on opener Life Is Hip, while the dulcets
get breathy and the beats cloudy on Hands Against the Rain.
As the gears shift through jazzy shuffle to almost incongruous beat and voice combinations
(Some New Day) it is clear continuity comes via the appetite to contrast. Slipper
have turned in something playful.
The Star - Sheffield
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Slipper featuring Andrea Black "When Hot Dogs Fly"
Lovers of Loop Guru and loads of other global fusionists will dig this new release
from this little known but exceptional label.
Loop Guru's Sam Dodson teams up with Andrea Black for some 1920s- inspired electronica,
released on Aphex Twins label Rephlex.
This 13-track cd will soth your consciousness like a pair of comfy slippers - but
the type with a hard sole, giving them a bit of an edge. Am I stretching the metaphor
yet?
Personnel on this charismatic long-player include blues harpist Daniel Lazerus of
The Nightfly, Percussionist Neil Sparkes Of Temple of Sound and theremin player John
Woodley.
There's a visual angle, too: download the iFilm video by Alison Faust for the track
Mini at www.elsewhen.org.uk.
If you like your music moody and imaginative, explore this CD and you won't be disappointed.
Playmouth Evening News
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Slipper 'When Hot Dogs Fly
Slipper's fourth album sees Sam Dodson (from Loop Guru) team up with Andrea Black
for an album that's causing quite a stir within 'the industry'. Some are claiming
it to be one of those word of mouth albums that could be major breakthrough in 2005.
WellÖit's good but not quite worth the hype as there are so many elements you will
have heard before: bits of Portishead and Archive plus several new jazz inflections.
It makes for a positive listen and quite a memorable one. If they could get one or
two decent track placements on TV it could just do it for them. But then you could
say that about any albumÖ
Future Music UK - December 2004
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 Anger over controlled parking zone
Brentford band Slipper, due to release their fourth album When Hot Dogs Fly, find
their work together is very much a family affair.
Three of the members Sam Dodson, Andrea Black and John Woodley originally met in
St Paul's Park, while their young children played on the swings.
As they chatted, they soon discovered that each were keen musicians Andrea a singer,
John a theremin player and Sam a member of Loop Guru, a writer of music for Slipper
and founder of the record label Elsewhen.
Sam invited the two to his studio, and work began on the forthcoming album.
As well as singing, Andrea wrote the lyrics, and John laid down some of his ethereal
sounds.
With busy lives, band meetings are unconventionally fitted in while dropping off
the children at school all are in the same year at Green Dragon Primary School in
Brentford and they know all the songs as well as their parents and CDs of the backing
tracks get passed to and fro.
"It's so unhip that it's hip, and that's Slipper for you," says Sam.
Showing a touch of community spirit, the trio often travel together when playing
up town.
John, who doesn't drive, especially loves this arrangement!
"I can go out and play, have a beer and know that Sam or Andrea can give me
a lift home, as we're all local to each other."
In fact, many of their friends are local too, so any gig is full of familiar faces.
Slipper's next gigs are on 29 and 30 November at Pizza on The Park in Knightsbridge,
a venue that suits their jazzy lounge style perfectly, which has been compared to
Goldfrapp and Portishead with a sense of humour.
"Guests get to eat pizza, have a glass of wine and listen to our music in a
very laid-back atmosphere," adds Andrea.
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 Slipper "Hands Against The Rain"
Author: Fela Lewis Rating 4/5
Some music exists only to make money for someone in a suit, other music exists because
it has to. Which do you prefer? Silly question; the quest for making music for it's
own sake has given us the likes of Presley, The Beatles and Bob Dylan; music for
money gave us One True Voice. Slipper create music for its own sake, which is the
first good thing about them. The second good thing about them is that the music they
create sounds like it could have sprung from any of several wells; Talking Heads
in 1977, Chicks On Speed in 2003, Bjork in 2020. You'll get the impression that here
lies something subtly different, and there's subtlety in every element: subtle Latino
beats, a subtle wash of electro, a subtle, breathy sensuality, making this a subtle
and insidious earworm that'll slide itís way into your pleasure centres and never
leave.
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manchester music
album reviews
Thursday, 4th November 2004
Slipper featuring Andrea Black - When Hot Dogs Fly (Elsewhen)
A DREAMY little masterpiece here, with Andrea Black's fragile vocals floating on
on ambient sound, mildly latin rhythms and a general air of jazziness. This is much
lighter of touch and richer, musically, than much of the many endeavours teetering
on this cusp between jazz and electronica. Particularly intriguing is the title track,
a right little musical melodrama.
Paul Taylor - manchester online
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 Slipper - Pizza At The Park, London
(Tuesday January 20, 2004 4:39 PM)
Gig played on 06/01/2004
The first glass of wine the waiter pours me has a small lump of cork in it. As you
can imagine, the evening is ruined. dotmusic usually spends the year slumming
it in pub back rooms clasping a plastic pint of lager-flavoured water, but in January
the rules change. Be gone foul indie bands! Get thee hence dank broom cupboards!
Tonight, in a tastefully darkened basement a heirloom's toss from Hyde Park, we shall
sit mere feet from the stage and pay almost a tenner for a mushroom pizza. Ah, the
glamour, the excitement.
We've braved the bitter winter night, the ghost of our New Year's hangover still
with us, to see the first ever gig by Loop Guru offshoot Slipper, whose
debut album on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label was a gloriously disturbing melange
of twenties jazz, moody electronica and childhood nightmares. There've been a few
personnel changes since then: out goes The Damned's Rat Scabies and
spookily evocative singer Linda Finger, in comes jazz singer Andrea Black,
Temple Of Sound percussionist Neil Sparkes and blues harpist/producer
Daniel Lazarus - but the exotic, wildly imaginative vibe is still intact.
They play two sets (but of course, darlings!) while we chew garlic bread and rattle
jewellery. The first sees Black (essentially the jazz PJ Harvey) and
cellist Kathryn Williams and Nina Nastasia. This is exactly what you'd
imagine from a night out at Pizza At The Park: tasteful, quietly emotional, defined
by tradition. Slipper sneak on one by one like techno pixies, determined to
unleash strangeness. Percussionist Jym Darling, resplendent in silver top
hat and silver evening jacket, even appears to be playing an electronic potter's
wheel. Later, a man in a white lab coat carrying a glass of red wine will wander
on to play the theramin.
The second set, where they run through their forthcoming 'When Hot Dogs Fly'
album, is the real deal. The reference points are uncommon but compelling: the theme
music to 'Brazil', Edif Piaf, patters of slight drum'n'bass, fragments
of fluid sound, like they're flipping through the cosmos on an old radio trying to
find something genuinely new. At times, the songs come close to Bjork's work
with Matmos - classical forms and modern technology pulling in slightly different
directions, flowing onwards in the company of that startling voice - but mostly they're
off on their own trajectory, chasing brilliance.
Slipper say their music comes from a parallel universe, one where Elvis
and The Beatles never happened and electronica is always enjoyed with a dry
martini in a velvet basement. Tonight that dream comes to startling fruition. They
throw a champagne reception for one song while Andrea croons pointedly of
ambition and celebrity; Jym wanders through the tables as the melodies clatter
euphorically; ideas bleed into theatre and back again. Give them a slot on 'Later'
and they'd work dark, rich magic. Which reminds me... Waiter, the desert menu, if
you please.
by Ian Watson - Launch.co.uk
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Gli "Slipper" con l'album "Earworms" verso nuovi orizzonti
Il "Los Angeles" se ne e' occupato in pompa magna dedicando loro una splendida
recensione che va ad aggiungersi ai commenti spassionati di riviste specializzate
del calibro di "UNCUT", che li ha definiti come i "Portished con il
sendo dello humor". E persino John Peel, dj di fama mondiale, nel suo programma
"The John Peel Sessions" in onda su Radio One (BBC) ha parlato del loro
ultimo disco, citandoli fra l'altro nella prefazione di un prezioso volume sui "Damned",
indimenticati eroi del Punk (assieme ai "Sex Pistols" e ai "Clash")
di cui si e' appena celebrato il 25° anniversarioi della nascita. Si chiamano
"Slipper" ed "Earworms" e' il titolo dell'album appena sfornato
(il secondo della carriera) dalla "Mechanism Records" casa discografica
del messinese Chris Di Mauro. Suonano un piacevolissimo psycho jazz (mix di drum
& bass, jazz anni'50 e musica elettronica) e sono in tre : Sam Dodson,, Linda
Finger (entrambi membri dei "Loop Guru") e Rat Scabies, leggendario batterista
dei mitici "Damned" (era lui negli Anni '70 a dar fuoco alla batteria durante
i concerti).
Gli Slipper hanno pubblicato il loro primo album "Invisible Movies", nel
2000, per la Rephlex Records, prestigiosa etichetta del genio della musica elettronica
Mr. Aphex Twin. "Earworms" si conferma altro prezioso gioiellino di innovazione
musical. Sam Dodson, anima del gruppo, e' soddisfatto dalla critica internazionale
e ci tiene , al telefono da Londra, a salutare i fan siciliani che lo hanno apprezzato
nello splendido concerto di Messina nell'estate 1997. In molti ricorderanno l'incredibile
performance dei Loop Guru alla Fiera Campionaria. "E' stato uno show entusiasmante
con un pubblico grandioso - ricorda Dodson - : non dimentichero' il calore dei messinesi
e quelle strepitose granite".
- Come e' avvenuta la metamorfosi da Loop Guru a Slipper ?
"Slipper e' il materiale che non si adattava all'universo dei Loop Guru. Un
po' orientato verso il jazz, anche se un tantino piu' lounge e oscuro; ma sempre
divertente . Suoniamo adesso un cocktail di influenze che preme contro i confini
della musica. La nostra ispirazione proviene da qualunque cosa: cibo, libri, ecc"
- Qual'e' la differenza tra l'album debutto "Invisible Movies" e il
nuovo "Earworms" ?
La differenza sta nel tempo nelle chitarre heavy, e in altre cose piuttostobizzarre
direi. Gli Slipper si evolvono molto rapidamente: stiamo gia' lavorando a un'altro
album, molto diverso dai precedenti e fuori dagli schemi.
- Lei ha all'attivo collaborazioni con artisti come Aphex Twin e Jean Michael
Jarre; adesso lavora con Rat Scabies legenda vivente del punk Anni'70. A proposito,
ha gia' provato a incendiare qualche suo strumento ?
"No, si e' llimitato a rubarmeli gli strumenti. Rat ha un rapporto quasi ossessivo
col fuoco.: la sua principale occupazione durante l'ultimo tour e' stata quella di
prendersi cura durante la notte del gas dell'accendino; come dire, la situazione
si e' fatta esplosiva".
- So che ama collezionare dischi in vinile piuttosto rari. Cosa pensa dell' Mp3
?
"Qualunque mezzo che permetta l'ascolto e la diffusione della musica e'
ben accetto. Ci sara' sempre chi collezionera' come me i vecchi vinile,e anche i
cd originali.
Tito Cavalieri , Gazzetta del Sud - 30 Aprile 2003
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Slipper - Earworms
Gli slipper, attivi dal 2000, sono un trio composto da Sam Dodson (loop, chitarre,
batteria e sample), Linda Finger (canto) e Rat Scabies (batteria). Earwoms e' una
raccolta di colonne sonore immaginarie che potrebbero andare bene per film di Ed
Wood mai realizzati. Sono composizioni tanto eccentriche quanto buffe, che attingono
a piene mani dalla musica cosmica, dalla new wave e dal cocktail lounge. La prima
traccia, Sheep, e' una cosmic jam che si giova d'interventi disturbanti alla
Residents e voci radio, palesi prese in giro di quelle degli astronauti dell'Apollo
13; Hello mescola chitarre qua alla Snakefinger qua alla Robert
Fripp, con una linea di basso jazzato e una voce femminile ammaliante; con Nu
Hoover s'arriva a lambire l'exotica anni cinquanta di Yuma Sumac. Uno
dei lavori più interessanti che l'etichetta ha prodotto, con l'unico difetto
della frammentarieta'.
Edoardo Bredda - Sentireascoltare.com - Marzo 2003
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 Slipper
Earworms
We left Mechanism at the release of Latex, and here is the indefatigable sicilian
label get back with two new releases. Slipper with Earworms succeed without doubt
to catch off guard, this is for sure, with the strange atmosphere who dominate the
whole record. If the fact that they released their previous album on Aphex Twin's
Rephlex suggest the word "braindance", you are totally off the right path.
This Slipper work is moving on some really bizzare coordinates, in which the
parallel with the old police movies soundtracks or the american noir movies
cross with the meridian of samples. The result is impressive, sometimes quite disquieting,
and remember a little bit an old soundtrack composed by David Shea. This spy story's
jazzy themes are continously laid with sample voices and not (Slipper have also a
singer). If you are secret agents at the service of Your Royal Highness, Slipper
are a must.
Andrea Ferraris - Sodapop, March 2003
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Slipper
Earworms
. bizzare, electronica, pshyco-jazz
<CD> Mechanism Records
Under the vortex and the high wire walkerism of Slipper, again a new roaring material
from Mechanism Records, a label of the deep south and islander (Messina), that is
quickly conquering our hearts trought oblique and catartic astractions, in liberator
incursions in musical territories uncustomary. Electronic and pshyco jazz, buzz,
fuzzy and improbable treatments of imaginary soundtracks, with an insist taste for
the linguistic game and the confusion of references, styles and tongues. Only 7 tracks
, but sufficient to delineate the advance from the province of the Empire of a new
recruitment of aware experimentalists. Chaos, aware appeal, time paradox, cinematoscopic
influences, distilled in a trasversal way, filtering the references and hiding the
traces, giving space a little bit to the mistery and a little bit to the bizzare.
Sam Dodson, Linda Finger and Rat Scabies enter without hesitations straight to our
more ecletic senses, another centre for the sicilian label.
Aurelio Cianciotta - Neural.it, December 2002
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Lounge tinged jazz, jazz tinged gospel... whichever piece of the press release you
believe, 'Zoon Sandwich' sees Slipper doing with it what Moby did with gospel
- sample it and stick it into original music.
The primary difference between what the bald vegetarian did and what Slipper do here
is to be found after a few moments' listening. While Moby went for easy-tempo beats
to get an over-weaned audience toe-tapping, Slipper take the samples into an atmospheric
place of late-night parps, echoes and lyrical musings, with very little in the way
of coherent rhythm to distract from the other-worldly atmosphere they create - save
for one or two exceptions which prove the rule, like 'Blues & Lights'.
But in amongst the dramatic ride cymbals, the John Barry-esque string riffs,
the lovely twang of a double bass and the tittle-tattling of the various drum sounds
and effects, there's also a playfulness here, characterised by the album title, the
sleeve and the choice of samples, which is quite at odds with the mildly disconcerting
music.
The five-piece outfit have clearly taken on music and arrangement with the intention
of creating something different, and hats off to them for that, for this they have
achieved. Even if 'Feelin' Good' sounds like Massive Attack working without
a killer riff, and 'Obsession' - despite the aid of a sampled Dennis Weaver - sounds
like Lemon Jelly having a bad trip.
It's a record that endears itself to the listener after a few hearings rather than
instantaneously. Unlike fellow sample-heads The Avalanches, Slipper don't
even attempt to construct a tune from their material, but are instead happy to stick
to soundtrack territory.
So the end result is something you can't whistle, can't dance to and wouldn't really
bother with unless you'd drunk a bottle of wine and had smoked enough to avoid seeing
where the walls stop and the carpet starts. And for all that, it's a musically interesting
album. 'Zoon Sandwich' is, fundamentally, just some way clear of Moby-like "accessible",
but it'll make for an interesting post-club experience.
- Michael Hubbard, Music OMH.com - October 2002
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Los Angeles Times - 28 July 2002
Members of English world-techno group Loop Guru and drummer Rat Scabies of the Damned
have teamed up under the band name Slipper with an album, "Zoon Sandwich",
due Aug. 27. The album was recorded with the individual musicians never being in
the same room at the same time. Each did his part indipendently and sent them to
the others via e-mail...
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SLIPPER
Zoon Sandwich
Earworms
Bizzare, lounge-tinged psycho-jazz
Every bit as weird, wonderful and wobbly as its precessor,n Slipper's second
album, Zoon Sandwich, is a surreal blend of gothic jazz, disjointed samples and torch
siren vocals. What ekse would you expect from a band featuring Sam Dodson nd Linda
Finger (Loop Guru), Jym Darling (Psychic Tv) and Rat Scabies (The Damned)?
Their mini album Earworms, an italian import, is also composed of all-new material
and is just addictive.
Paul Johnson, Uncut Magazine
- October 2002
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 SLIPPER
"Earworms"
Mechanism
Honestly, I couldn't image the stick of Chris Miller out from the contest where I
loved them, that is on the drumskins of New Rose or Neat Neat Neat, to fill the tummies
of those who had the privilege to see the Damned of the golden age in action.
So, having missing the appointment with the debut on the Aphex Twin label, I didn't
know what espect from these Slipper which see, a part the "rantolanti stantuffi"
of Rat Scabies, Linda Goldfinger (which is not Linda Lovelace, peace to her soul
!!!) and Sam Dodson of Loop Guru, really busy in this game of stucks which haven't
nothing to do with rock and roll. We are more in a territory of frontier, on an hypothetical
strip of Gaza, which have lots of analogies with the Jazz for the free nature, fragmented
and esotheric. "Hello", for example, seems Bjork lost through the meshes
of Arkestra of Sun Ra, "Smokin", looks like a chinese shadow of Soul Coughing
with that turn around of bass strings so epidermic. "Nuhoover" instead
sound like a band of little town stricken by spasms, there where "Sheep"
is instead the Naked City of Jhon Zorn which stops watching his 11th September.,
A seductive game, to be tried.
Francesco "Lys" Dimauro - Succo Acido, July 2002
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Davvero intriganti e coinvolgenti gli Slipper di Earworms sono alla seconda prova,
guidati da Sam Dodson dei Loop Guru, praticamente il factotum di questo bizzarro
trio: trafficando con loops, samples, guitars e' líartefice del sound funambolico
e surreale degli Slipper, in bilico tra suggestioni da movie-soundtrack, jazzismi
liquidi e sequenze strumentali dal sapore lounge / alieno.
Non vi nascondo che in piu' di un'occasione Slipper mi hanno riportato alla memoria
il sound da 'realta' parallela' dei Residents : in comune con loro hanno soprattutto
l'ispirazione surreal-dadaista e l'andamento strumentale ondivago dei brani.
Sheep, Smokin',Hear Nothing, See Nothing, si insinuano subdolamente nelle sinapsi
mentali dello sprovveduto ascoltatore mettendole a dura prova. Una perfida crooner,
Linda Finger ed il portentoso/creativo drumming di Rat Scabies ( sì proprio
lui, il mattacchione dei Damned) coadiuvano idealmente Dodson nella messa a punto
di Earworms, uno dei dischi più bizzarri ed innovativi ascoltati negli ultimi
tempi.
Pasquale Boffoli - Zona 4
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Franco "Lys" Dimauro  Slipper : Invisible Movies
Impressive Debut from experimental
quartet that feature two ex-techno trancers, a punk and a jazz chanteuse.
Ex-toilet cleaner and Damned drummer Rat Scabies teams up with Loop Guru's Sam Dodson
- alias Salman Gita and Linda Finger to make an album of 12 weird and wonderful soundscapes.
With hypnotic global groove so beloved of Loop Guru, but cut with eerie exotica and
Bernard Herrmann-style thriller tension, Invisible movies id moreakin to a musical
Confession Of An English Opium-Eater than the pierced nipple and tattoo tribal trance
of Dodson and Finger's former employers. Opener Kwatzipetal is a spectral jazz opus
featuring the hallucinogenic babble of Liz Fletcher, Spider Spy recalls the car chase
exhilaration of Shelly Manne's Jazz Gunn and Muzik Gone has Billie Holiday warbling
in the studio with the special AKA. Other stand-outs include the evocative gothic
jazz of Lalabye and the orchestral noir of Fascinating, Jim Jarmusch should give
them a call.
LOIS WILSON -
MOJO
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