Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Osaka Bridge

Uniting the disparate elements of Scottish jazz-guru Bill Wells and Japan’s willfully amateur Maher Shalal Hash Baz ensemble, ‘Osaka Bridge’ (Karaoke Kalk, 2006) is an album that doesn’t shirk from it’s lofty aspirations - bringing a juxtaposition of styles together and reigning them into collaboration without losing either party’s creative finger-print. The music is full of youthful optimism, with broken pop jangles played alongside splashes of classic jazz tones. With the brass section joyfully oblivious to bum notes and missed cues, an endearing rolling rhythm over uplifting wind sections. Songs share both the imagination-run-riot ambition of the dream world and the inevitable melancholy of being rudely re-inserted back in the desert of the real.


Tracklist:

01. Rye & Guy (4:53)
02. Tipsy Cat (2:43)
03. The Dust Of Months (2:38)
04. Duck (1:04)
05. On The Beach Boys Bus (1:47)
06. Oddults (1:46)
07. Liqourice Tics (2:14)
08. Poxy (4:53)
09. Time Takes Me So Back (3:51)
10. Family Sighs (1:42)
11. Stabbed in Hamburg (1:49)
12. The Williams Sisters (0:37)
13. Cowtail Calypso (1:38)
14. Banned Announcements (1:57)
15. The Beach Boys Bus (Reprise) (3:29)

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