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I
highly
recommend anyone interested in live heavy jams, experimental
music, guitar fucking and/or impressive woman drummers to check
any of the Stinking Lizaveta live performances posted on You
Tube. It is jaw dropping stuff that this Philly-based trio is
used to shoving in front of our faces and into our ear canals.
More fascinating is that they don’t make it seem easy; bearded
guitarist Yanni Papadopoulos (was that Webster’s prosthetic
dad’s surname?) spews solos and funkified stoner-like esoteric
riffage like is nobody’s business, but he makes enough faces
while doing it to assure us that it takes hundreds of hours of
practice to get good at it and to rival Marcel Marceau’s
lackadaisical
expressionistic facial gestures at the same time. At the drum
stool is Chesire Agusta, who beats the skin with gusto, much
like it should be done for a band of this style (or lack
thereof), plenty of fills and stylish nuances; she is almost
Bonham-esque in her use of the tom toms.
Stinking
Lizaveta is a three piece formed by veteran musicians from the
West Philadelphia music scene. They play regularly around their
area and nowhere is that more evident than in Scream of the
Iron Iconocalst; the band’s fifth full-length recording and
second release through At a Loss. It’s not that they are tight
from so much gigging, but that their music is loose and
self-contained by apparent inertia. Mixed and recorded by the
great Steve Albini; Scream of the Iron Iconoclast nails
sixteen massive tracks of free flowing guitar rock. To make
things easier, it would be of benefit to lump them into a genre;
jazz rock is usually mentioned and the free spirit of each cut
grants that inclusion while the stoner quality to the playing,
the solos and the sparse ideas also grant Stinking Lizaveta’s
inclusion in that sub genre. The album is impressive from the
get go, but like is bound to happened with many instrumental
albums, it can get a bit tedious towards the end. Let’s not
forget we are talking sixteen jams here. A nearly intolerable high number for
anybody’s standards.
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