Vernon Reid, who played funk and
rock guitar for Living Colour, but here serves as ringmaster for
musicians like Hank Schroy on bass, Leon Gruenbaum on keys and Marlon
Browden on drums. In the center of this acoustical caleidoscope
Vernon's guitar screams and growls like a crazy but magnificent beast.
Vernon drives with us through the blues-like "Time," at slow blues
tempo, and faster through the quick whipping of "The Slouch," while
"Down and Out in Kigali and Freetown" crackles and pulsates with a
dangerous-sounding jungle beat. Points of jazz interest include the
nimble ensemble dash through "Outskirts" and two of what Vernon calls
"fractured standards," frenetic covers of Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder"
and Thelonious Monk's "Brilliant Corners." Reid's solos in "Corners"
wildly scratches like a death row inmate clawing desperately at the dirt
to escape from lockdown. Gruenbaum's piano solo scrambles but keeps
pace with its frantic tempo. Twice as fast, this updated and electric
"Sidewinder" sounds more like a roadrunner but still packs plenty of
bite. Sort of hoped that DJ Logic might have rocked a little more loopy
and funky as he twists and turntables a guest spot in "Voodoo Pimp
Stroll." (Reid and Logic teamed to release Front End Lifter as the Yohimbe Brothers in 1992.)
01. Known Unknown (5:04)
02. The Slouch (4:15)
03. Brilliant Corners (2:40)
04. Strange Blessing (5:10)
05. Outskirts (3:50)
06. Down And Out In Kigali And Freetown (2:54)
07. Sidewinder (2:34)
08. Voodoo Pimp Stroll (6:01)
09. Time (4:47)
10. Flatbush And Church (3:46)
11. Ebow Underground (Excerpt) (0:39)
12. X The Unknown (6:03)
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