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Review: 'Stafford,Harry   And Marco Butcher'
'Bone Architecture'   

-  Label: 'Black Lagoon Records/Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Blues' -  Release Date: '29.10.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'BLRCD005'

Our Rating:
Bone Architecture is the latest solo album by Inca Babies legend Harry Stafford, this time made in collaboration with Brazilian guitarist Marco Butcher who've made a great album of Death rock dark jazz- tinged blues for dystopian hard boiled fictitious times.

The album opens with a tapped cymbal into to the title track Bone Architecture that has a cool 50's jazz soundtrack feel to it, like your watching a Nelson Algren adaptation with A Barry Adamson style backing reworking a Bernard Herman score with good dark lyrics setting out the story to come and all the horror and depravation you're about to witness.

Look Behind You Again has collapsing percussion and babbling voices in your head that are driving you on to escape that relationship and everything that's gone wrong, as he discovers just how guilty she is and how he figures in the mess that is her life and what will he do when she moves in with Zack on Friday other than skulk away and drown his sorrows.

There's Someone Trying To Get In is a deep southern blues wail over chain gang percussive elements and a deeply disturbed tale that is cinematic and will conjure up all sorts of nightmares. It also seems this was always an album that was going to be reviewed on the anniversary of the day my dad died.

Juniper Sunday is like a cool jazz reworking of Stray Cat Strut into a laid-back tune with some nice Chet Baker style trumpet and gentle Lionel Hampton style vibes for a lazy Sunday that has a few twists within it.

The Sun And The Sky is a slow sepulchral blues like a slow death march, quite sparse this would soundtrack something rather grim and grizzly as we try to wipe away a tear or two.

Termite City needs to be heard back-to-back with James Chance Terminal City album, it has that wild free wheeling dark jazz blues sound kind of like he's channeling the Walk On The Wild side film vibe or are stuck inside a Jim Thompson novel.

Worst In Me is a speed freak shuffle list song with all sorts of things chucked into the list as the shuffling percussion keeps you rushing around as the world laughs at you and your endless mission.

Savannah Of Havana see's Savannah strutting her stuff down on the streets prowling around like Harry's very own Eartha Kitt villainess whose got her claws in him, as he tries to extricate himself from her web while still able to walk away living.

Hide The Knives what can you say, keep the knives safely away, this has a paranoid edge to its insistent blues that's ready to rumble.

FTS fills the soul with dread and a deep dark bassline with an insomniac shuffle around in the middle of the night, as you might have just gone crazy, as the smoke is rising, the sirens are blazing and death is never far away.

Horror Film House isn't like the house across the road from here that was the Brothel in Eastern Promises as this is darker horror than Cronenburg. More like the grizzly episode of Silent Witness it was used in. They are slowly ripping at your flesh while wailing this final lament almost like it's whispering through the walls at you.

The album closes with a cover of one of the few Pink Floyd songs worth covering, with a nicely psyche blues version of Arnold Layne, this has loads of effects on the vocals helping to make this a very cool cover that I'm sure all those Pink Floyd nerds will want to hear it.

Find out more at https://harrystafford.bandcamp.com/album/bone-architecture https://www.facebook.com/harrystaffordUK



  author: simonovitch

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