The Lounge Lizards
(1981) I first knew of John Lurie from his work with Jim Jarmusch starring in Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law (two movies I adore) and only later learned that he was a musician. The Lounge Lizards’ debut album is an upbeat melodic jazz album that mixes a kind of Ornette Coleman (as one jazz musician I have recently begun listening too, the influence here became obvious) jazz with the smatterings of the noise of the NYC No Wave. Lurie (on sax) is joined by keyboards, drums, bass, and guitar, the latter in the form of DNA’s Arto Lindsay. The saxophone and keyboards provide melodies that quickly become stuck in the ear. The melody often devolve into chaotic solos and bursts of noise. Arto’s guitar is an often subtle part of the mix, his sharp explosive guitar work comes in rare bursts or blends in with the percussion (and there is none of his incoherent vocals as all the songs here are instrumentals). In short, this album is an amazing mix of the melodic and the… chaotic. I can’t stop listening to it, and when I do the melodies follow me around.
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