Shalini Chatterjee is known to many as a power pop icon, having led Vinyl Devotion for years and now playing music with Mitch Easter with Shalini and The Crackpots. But here she replicates the sounds of "Krautrock", especially Neu!, Kraftwerk and Cluster. Recorded at home and mixed with Mitch, it sounds very much like these bands but is also imbued with her pop sense. A fun listen! (www.125records.com)
Music Reviews | No. 32
Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 1 and 2
by Larry Crane
Despite all my warnings in the end of this issue about recording crazy people, I'm really glad someone made these recordings. Irwin Chusid is the author of a book of the same name, and he compiled...