Diane Birch-This Corrosion(The Phenomenal Handclap Band)
Diane Birch shows a marked predilection for music of a few decades ago, so as to have printed a first drive that can fruitfully be confused between the historical works of American singer-songwriters of the ’60s.
Its status as a twenty-seven, however, carries with it the spending teens when the offer was another record and this must be born the desire to find a bridge between the passions for the styles of the time sacred folk / rock music and those of his youth imprinting.
Not always such a bridge is, of course, then the singer of Michigan had to invent an original approach and for that he chose to be accompanied by The Phenomenal Handclap Band, a group of strong-willed, capable musicians to create a sound somewhere between rousing rhythms and psychedelia (not for nothing that the band and fellow Grizzly Bear).
The result is “The Velveteen age” disc, only seven tracks: this is a series of covers, the originals of which date from the period ’70/’80.
The first to arrive at our ears is the revisiting of a song by The Sisters of Mercy “This Corrosion.”
From the suite of more than ten minutes of the original, Diane Birch and his cronies condense a piece that falls into canonical three minutes and a half developing very special sound that eventually culminate in a funk / fusion completely unknown to the track to start.
It must be said immediately those fans of post-punk Andrew Eldrich & Co. inevitably turn up their noses, but if you cover with a view to assessing the rediscovery of the past that is not limited to the revival that can be appreciated in an experiment interesting background.
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