English avant-garde musician Colin Robinson takes a look at - among other things - religion, Greek mythology, superstition, food and old school means of communication on Potpourri or Popery?, the new album by his Jumble Hole Clough project. His love for acts like King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, free jazz and Krautrock in general is mixed with beeps and purrs..
He plays quite a lot of guitar on this one, but the percolating keyboards get their place in the spotlights as well, sometimes within the same track. Occasionally Mordred is a mashup of a pirate's drinking ditty and an off-kilter prog rock song - it also mentions John Travolta's vest. He gets funky with Scylla Black Mass and Semaphore Signal a manual for the art of stop-and-start chopped notes.
As per usual Robinson manages to surprise with this unrelenting bunch of songs, whether it is the bluesy slow death of fruit basking the sun (My Green Tangerine) or the vision of Hindu deity (Krishna on roller blades) passing him by in the street. Not quite sure what he is having with his tea, but he could make a killing with his recipe of eccentric weirdness.
Potpourri or Popery? is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.
Tracks:- From a Carwash in Caerphilly
- Sympathy for the Breville
- Fruit & Veg.
- Somewhere in The North
- Occasionally Mordred
- Thrice Fallen
- Scylla Black Mass
- All You Need Is Gloves
- Friday 13th Part 13 (Santa&s Swearing Elves revisited)
- Semaphore Signal
- Black Pudding
- My Green Tangerine
- Three Red Kites circle a chip shop on Butcher Hill
- Don’t call me tovarishch
- All the Saints are Asleep again
- Friday 13th Part 14
- Krishna on roller blades
- Enoch Tempest
- Goes home and has a cup of tea
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