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Squonk Opera: Bigsmorgasbordwunderwerk. Angel 7243 5 266523 2 7.(Review)
Squonk Opera: Bigsmorgasbordwunderwerk. Angel 7243 5 266523 2 7.
Maybe the idea was to confuse critics enough to admit that they didn't have a clue what was going on here, on the off chance that the critics might say something nice about them rather than nothing at all. OK. I haven't got a clue. Fifty years ago this stuff might have been labeled "avant-garde." Today, I suppose it borders on parody. To be honest, it's just plain bizarre. That should increase their album sales tenfold.
Close your eyes and you can begin to imagine yourself in a dimly lit cellar club in the Village or San Francisco's North Beach of the late '50s. Squonk Opera is made up of five probably gifted musicians led by Steven O'Hearn and Jackie Dempsey. The group play sounds on piano, electronic winds, whistles, accordion, percussion, djembe, and double bass, with Jana Losey adding vocals. You know it's all going to be goofy from the title itself, Bigsmorgasbordwunderwerk, a work the group calls, "The Opera With the Most Highly Syllabic Title Ever." Then we recognize in individual comic subtitles like ...
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