Re: (TV) Verlaine article in Philadelphia Inquirer

[Micah <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>]

I am picking these two off iTunes tomorrow. So, far the last two times I tried I was sidetracked. I ended up getting:
   
  Keith Jarrett's "Vienna" Concert
  Kanda Bongo Man's "Live in Central Park"
  Virunga Roots, Vol. 1
   
  Getting the Verlaine discs will cap a fine week of Music gathering.
   
  M.

Jack <scanman723@yahoo.com> wrote:
  Verlaine doubles the pleasure

Steve Klinge
Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: Friday, May 12, 2006

Fourteen years ago, Tom Verlaine, artful guitar hero and founder of the
seminal '70s art-punk band Television, released Warm and Cool, an album
of understated, meditative instrumentals.

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Since then, he has stayed in the shadows, writing soundtracks for and
performing with silent films, playing now and then in his friend Patti
Smith's band, occasionally stepping into the spotlight for a Television
reunion tour.

But now comes not only another set of instrumentals, Around, but also
Songs and Other Things, his first vocal album since 1990, and a tour
that will bring him Tuesday to the Theater of Living Arts.

Verlaine plays down reading any significance into his resurgence.

"They're just my two new records," he says with a self-deprecating
laugh on the phone from his New York studio. "It seemed like it took a
long time to get them out."

Around came from a four-day session - two days to record, two days to
edit - and it ranges through the twangy stomp "Wheel Broke," the
African highlife jangle "Meteor Beach," and plenty of brief but
expansive improvisatory pieces.

Songs was recorded sporadically over the last few years and is a worthy
successor to Verlaine's best solo albums, such as 1981's Dreamtime.
Amid terse, lucid tracks such as "From Her Fingers," nocturnal ballads
such as "A Stroll," and distorted blasts like "Heavenly Charms" come
several surprisingly fun tunes. "Shingaling" bounces along to a
second-line rhythm, and "The Day on You" rolls on a vaguely familiar
'50s guitar rumble.

"That's a very strange tune. It's even an odd tune for me because the
beat is sort of New Orleans-y; it's almost kind of parade music,"
Verlaine says of "The Day on You."

"It's a kind of celebratory tone, which I don't really do that much.
And that rhythm guitar is sort of '50s, but it's not a Bo Diddley
rhythm."

While Television has played in Philly a few times over the last 15
years, Verlaine can't remember when he brought his own band here last.

"Solo, I don't think I've played there in, gosh, maybe 20 years," he
says, laughing. "Shocking, when you think about it. It's like some
blues guy."

Jack

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. -- Tom Waits

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