Friday, December 3, 2021

Fat Little Bastard - Oskorei Jazz Cafe 4



Written and recorded mostly during the 6 month long 2020 Melbourne Covid Lockdown, this is a tremendous sequel to Fat Little Bastard's 2004 experimental double album "Oskorei Jazz Cafe 1 & 2". That effort began with a question: "If the founders of Norwegian Black Metal were to hang out in a cafe - what music would they be listening to?" This follow-up may or may not be the answer, but it's definitely a valiant effort. Containing a fusion of multiple genres stapled onto bits of jazz - we get mindbendy tunes about your face and my face too - a meeting of friends to sing about chicken necks - sonic destruction at a ski lodge - smooth jazz guitars humming along to leaf-blowers - and have I mentioned the Enya cover? There's an Enya cover. (But don't forget there's also a part 3.) All these superdooper songs are (C) Xtian/KVEldritch, 2021 ("Caribbean Blue" by Nick Ryan / Eith Ni-bhraonain / Roma Shane Ryan). Thanks to everyone appearing on "Chicken Necks" (full list at above URL).